Sample Sentences forcriminal law (auto-selected)
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The burden of proof is greater in criminal law than in civil law.criminal law = the body of law dealing with crimes against the state (like burglary) and their punishment as contrasted to civil law in which individuals can sue each other
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They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law. (source)criminal law = the body of law dealing with crimes against the state as contrasted to civil law in which individuals can sue each other
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Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy.† (source)
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And there on the twenty-fifth of February 1927, was the drafting of Article 58 of the Criminal Code—the net that would eventually ensnare us all.† (source)
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The expert had stated in his column that Advokat Giannini was a respected women's rights lawyer, but that she had absolutely no experience in criminal law outside this case.† (source)
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If the terminology of our criminal law could be applied to the realm of art, we would have to say that what Mr. Roark delivered constitutes the equivalent of spiritual embezzlement.† (source)
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It is an axiom of criminal law, and, consequently, you understand its full application.† (source)
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"Neither we nor our clients are unaware of the provisions of the criminal code," replied Bram.† (source)
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There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such things.† (source)
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You don't know Article Nine of the Criminal Code.† (source)
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For, of course, as Mr. Griffiths and his son so well knew, in Utica, New York City, Albany (and now that he came to think of it, more particularly in Albany, where were two brothers, Canavan & Canavan, most able if dubious individuals), there were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and tricks of the criminal law.† (source)
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Every country's criminal code is very severe.† (source)
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would not their occurrence (and you admit that they occur) make criminal law necessary?† (source)
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I was not in the habit of reading the New Hampshire Criminal Code; going through the sections and subsections was like navigating through molasses.† (source)
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A political condemnation in the United States may, therefore, be looked upon as a preventive measure; and there is no reason for restricting the judges to the exact definitions of criminal law.† (source)
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If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.† (source)
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