In English history, the penal laws were a series of laws that sought to enforce the State-decreed religious monopoly of the Church of England and, following...

Penal laws may refer to: Criminal law Penal law (British), laws to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Catholicism Penal laws (Ireland)...

The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code in the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence, until it was repealed...

In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the...

Penal law refers to criminal law. Penal law or Penal Law may also refer to: Penal laws against the Welsh 1401–2, discriminatory laws against the Welsh...

Transportation Act 1717, the British government initiated the penal transportation of indentured servants to Britain's colonies in the Americas, although...

The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences...

century BCE in Ancient Greece. The practice of penal transportation reached its height in the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries. Transportation...

The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United...

Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard...

Governor General-in-Council. It is similar to the penal codes of countries formerly part of the British Empire in South and Southeast Asia, including Singapore...

A criminal code or penal code is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal...

Section 377 is a British colonial penal code that criminalized all sexual acts "against the order of nature". The law was used to prosecute people engaging...

A penal military unit, also known as a penal formation, disciplinary unit, or just penal unit (usually named for their formation and size, such as penal...

1907, Bermuda Laws Online, 30 August 2020. Criminal Code of the Virgin Islands, Government of the British Virgin Islands, 1997. Penal Code, Government...

English Law. Presently, the Pakistan Penal Code is still in effect and can be amended by the Parliament of Pakistan. The draft of the Indian Penal Code was...

The Penal Code of Myanmar is the official criminal code of Myanmar. The code was enacted on 1 May 1861 during British rule in Burma and is divided into...

of Nigeria. The Nigerian Penal Code, also known as the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, is currently chapter 89 of the Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963;...

Singaporean law that criminalised sex between consenting adult males. It was introduced under British colonial rule in 1938 when it was added to the Penal Code...

Indian Penal Code has been used as a blasphemy law to prevent insulting Christianity, Islam and other religions practised in India. The British-era section...

The Penal Code (Malay: Kanun Keseksaan) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Malaysia. Its official long title is "An Act relating...

The Egyptian Penal Code (Arabic: قانون العقوبات المصري) is the governing body which determines the provisions related to criminal law, criminal acts, and...

2017) (in Icelandic) India: Penal Code Indonesia: Penal Code Archived 13 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine Indonesia: Law Regarding the Elimination of...

a term used to describe a penal establishment where forced labor was enforced. These establishments were typically in penal colonies or galleys where...

some criminal codes of some former British colonies have descended from Section 375 of the British Colonial Penal Code of 1860. 1978: Hong Kong: Section...

but this was the first law to create a specific offence of pornography. The law repeals and replaces Section 166 of the Penal Code Act, widening the legal...

from the French penal code (France only removed a similar provision in 1994). Article 522 of the Lebanon Penal Code became a part of the law in the 1940s...

regulations and the offender may be punished according to penal law. According to the Act. 836 of the civil law of the Islamic Republic of Iran if a suicidal person...

The penal laws against the Welsh (Welsh: Deddfau Penyd) were a set of laws passed by the Parliament of England in 1401 and 1402 that discriminated against...

Criminal Justice Act 1948 that penal servitude, forced labour for prisoners, was abolished. See Henry James Sumner Maine, Ancient Law (1861) A Smith, An Inquiry...