Pronunciation of the English word penal.
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1. | No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. | |
2. | Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. | |
3. | Criminal law, also known as penal law, involves prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime. | |
4. | This violates about a million penal codes and every holy book there is. | |
5. | Australia was started as a British penal colony. | |
6. | Tom was exiled to a penal colony. | |
7. | This person appears to have been none other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman, who, with his brother, had only recently emerged from a five years' spell of penal servitude. |