The collection of criminal law comprising of criminal offenses and sentencing and punishment. … [Read more...] about PENAL CODE
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PEDE PULVEROSUS
In old English and Scotch law. Dusty-foot. A term applied to itinerant merchants, chapmen, or peddlers who attended fairs. … [Read more...] about PEDE PULVEROSUS
PEERS OF FEES
Vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in his courts, being equal in function. These were termed "peers of fees," because holding fees of the lord, or because their business in court was to sit and judge, under their locds, of disputes arising upon fees; but, if there were too many in one lordship, the lord usually chose twelve, who had … [Read more...] about PEERS OF FEES
PENAL INSTITUTION
A correctional facility. A jail, prison or penitentiary. … [Read more...] about PENAL INSTITUTION
PEDERAST OR PEDERASTI
The crime of sexual abuse of a minor, commonly referring to the situation where an adult male grooms and sexually assaults an adolescent an adolescent male that is not of family (which is incest.) … [Read more...] about PEDERAST OR PEDERASTI