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Criminal law defines crimes, their nature, and punishment. A crime is an act or omission that violates public law. The state has authority under its police power to define crimes, punish them, and establish criminal procedure. There are limitations on a lawmaking body's power to enact penal legislation, including a prohibition on ex post facto laws and bills of attainder, which inflict punishment without a trial.

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Criminal law defines crimes, their nature, and punishment. A crime is an act or omission that violates public law. The state has authority under its police power to define crimes, punish them, and establish criminal procedure. There are limitations on a lawmaking body's power to enact penal legislation, including a prohibition on ex post facto laws and bills of attainder, which inflict punishment without a trial.

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CRIMINAL LAW BOOK 1

CRIMINAL LAW branch or division of law


which defines crimes, treats of their nature
and provides for their punishment.
CRIME- an act committed or omitted in
violation of a public law forbidding or
commanding it.
The state has the authority, under its police
pwer to define and punish crimes and to
lay down the rules of criminal procedure.

LIMITATIONS ON THE POWER OF THE


LAWMAKING BODY TO ENACT PENAL
LEGISLATION
1. No ex post facto law shall be
enacted.
2. No bill of attainder shall be enacted.
a. Bill of Attainder a legislative
act which inflicts punishment
without trial.
b.

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