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  2. French criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Principe fondamental du droit pénal moderne exprimé par la formule "Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege", le principe de légalité des délits et des peines (ou principe de légalité criminelle) signifie qu'il ne saurait y avoir de crimes, de délits et de contraventions sans une définition préalable de ces infractions, contenue dans un ...

  3. French code of criminal procedure - Wikipedia

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    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 le déroulement du procès pénal. Ces droits doivent assurer à la société une protection suffisante, sans sacrifier les libertés individuelles.

  4. Glossary of French criminal law - Wikipedia

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    état de droit rule of law (lit. "state of law"). [131] État de droit is one of many ways that the principle of "rule of law" is rendered in French, including: prééminence du droit, primauté du droit, principe de droit, régime de droit, règne du droit, respect de la loi, principe de légalité, or communauté de droit.

  5. Principle of legality in French criminal law - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Code pénal (France) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Criminal Ordinance of 1670 - Wikipedia

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    François Serpillon, Code criminel, ou commentaire sur l'ordonnace de 1670, 1767 The Criminal Ordinance of 1670 (French: Ordonnance criminelle de 1670, or Ordonnance criminelle de Colbert) was a Great Ordinance dealing with criminal procedure which was enacted in France under the reign of King Louis XIV.

  8. Principle of legality in criminal law - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Contravention in French criminal law - Wikipedia

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    "La justice pénale en France" [Criminal justice in France]. Ministère de la Justice (in French) French Ministry of Justice (6 August 2008). "Les mots-clés de la Justice - Lexique" [Key words of Justice - Lexicon]. Ministère de la Justice (in French). Archived from the original on 31 March 2023.