penal code

1. 1.

   the legal code governing crimes and their punishment

   Broaderlegal code

   law

Questions about penal code

What does penal code mean?

penal code means "the legal code governing crimes and their punishment".

Is penal code a common word?

penal code 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.