Sentences with phrase «penal code as»

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There has been a review of the penal code in Comoros as well as proposals for constitutional change in Ghana and Sierra Leone towards abolition.

Our penal code has its roots in the English common law, which — guided by premodern medical science — saw the killing of an unborn fetus not as murder but as a lesser crime.

But the VADIR data has been criticized as misleading because it uses penal code terminology to classify crimes; for example, an incident in which a child throws a crayon at another child would be classified as assault with a weapon under VADIR.

Unlike other areas of the law that find their rules in statutes (such as penal codes in criminal cases), the development of personal injury law has taken place mostly through court decisions, and in treatises written by legal scholars.

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).

Ethereum developer Yoichi Hirai has resigned as one of the platform's code editors, citing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of penal law.

Furthermore, starting from 1 January 2018, issuing, trading and using illegal means of payment, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, may be subject to prosecution, as amended to the penal code of Vietnam in 2017.

«We are actively considering ways to prohibit transactions on domestic exchanges by judging virtual currency trading as a deceptive means of defrauding people -LSB-...] under the penal code,» the publication quotes an official as saying.

Hirai's reportedly main problem with the proposal is what he sees as its conflict with a Japanese penal code on the «Unauthorized Creation of Electromagnetic Records.»