| 单词 | criminal law |
| 释义 | > as lemmascriminal law criminal law n. the branch of law concerned with defining crimes and with prosecuting and punishing offenders; the body of law relating to crime; contrasted with civil law n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > criminal crown law1647 criminal law1672 criminal code1700 1672 G. Mackenzie Pleadings xiv. 170 Our Criminal Law being founded upon the Civil Law, ought in this, as in most other cases, to be squared by it. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. i. 2 The code of criminal law; or, as it is more usually denominated with us in England, the doctrine of the pleas of the crown. 1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal Law II. xvi. 61 The question to which I refer is, whether the criminal law applies to what have sometimes been described as acts of State? 1952 J. Thompson Killer inside Me xvi. 91 He'd dropped out of politics and stuck to his criminal law practice. 2000 Police Feb. 13/2 The skilled police detective..needs an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the criminal law and most especially the law pertaining to the admissibility of evidence. < as lemmas |
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