criminal law

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   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

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Questions about criminal law

What does criminal law mean?

criminal law means "the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment".

Is criminal law a common word?

criminal law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.