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criminal code

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criminal code crime n → Strafgesetzbuch nt
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I incline as little to the sickly feeling which makes every canting lie or maudlin speech of a notorious criminal a subject of newspaper report and general sympathy, as I do to those good old customs of the good old times which made England, even so recently as in the reign of the Third King George, in respect of her criminal code and her prison regulations, one of the most bloody-minded and barbarous countries on the earth.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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