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Droit pénal. Procédure pénale 2023 [Criminal law. criminal procedure 2023]. HyperCours (in French) (14 ed.). Paris: Editions Dalloz. ISBN 978-2-247-22075-5. OCLC 1346591522. p. pub. blurb: Le droit pénal général étudie les principes généraux de la répression des infractions, la responsabilité et la peine. La procédure pénale régit ...
Droit pénal. Procédure pénale 2023 [Criminal law. criminal procedure 2023]. HyperCours (in French) (14 ed.). Paris: Editions Dalloz. ISBN 978-2-247-22075-5. OCLC 1346591522. p. pub. blurb: Le droit pénal général étudie les principes généraux de la répression des infractions, la responsabilité et la peine. La procédure pénale régit ...
Schema showing jurisdictional dualism in the French legal system. France has a dual system of law: one system deals with private relationships, and is sometimes called "private law" (droit privé) or "ordinary law" (droit commun), and the other system which covers administrative officials, and is called "administrative law" (droit administratif).
The Code pénal is the codification of French criminal law (droit pénal). It took effect March 1, 1994 and replaced the French Penal Code of 1810 , which had until then been in effect. This in turn has become known as the "old penal code" in the rare decisions that still need to apply it.
République française; Secrétariat général du gouvernement (19 October 2022). "Légifrance Le service public de la diffusion du droit" [The public service for dissemination of the law]. Légifrance. Direction de l'information légale et administrative. ISSN 2270-8987. OCLC 867599055
The principle of criminal liability is defined in the constitution, [citation needed] and a fundamental corollary of it is its application in time (application de la loi pénale dans le temps). This principle means that criminal sanctions are not retroactive, per article 112-1 of the French penal code.
The principle of legality [7] in France (French: principe de légalité) goes back to the Penal Code of 1791 adopted during the French Revolution. The principle has its origins in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , which endows it with constitutional force and limits the conditions in which citizens may be punished ...
Defendant rights in administrative matters (Droits de la défense en matière administrative) [31] [32] in penal law [33] This principle has been recognized by the French Constutitional Council (Conseil constitutionnel) as among the fundamental principles recognized by the laws of the Republic, in criminal [34] as well as in administrative law.