Sentences with phrase «imposed penal laws»

In the seventeenth century British law imposed penal laws on the Irish people, laws whose intent was to destroy the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland as had been done in England and Scotland and Wales.

Not exact matches

Then France can't arrest the executioner because US is a sovereign state and gets to impose its own penal laws.

In other areas of administrative penal law there is only an indirect joint liability of the corporation for fines imposed for offences committed by the managing director or other «persons in charge» (section 9 Administrative Penal Code).

Quebec's Civil Code also contains various provisions dealing with external clauses, abusive clauses, penal clauses, illegible and incomprehensible clauses, and so on, to name a few, and also provides for a great number of statutorily imposed terms in what it calls «nominate» contracts (such as leases or contracts for services, which have rights and obligations specially prescribed by law).