The Indian Penal Code covers the punishments and types of assault in s. 351 through s. 358.

In New York State assault as defined in the New York State Penal Code Article 120, requires an actual injury.

The Indian Penal Code ( sect.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

* California Penal Code Section 159: " No person can be convicted of common barratry except upon proof that he has excited suits or proceedings at law in at least three instances, and with a corrupt or malicious intent to vex and annoy.

The Penal Procedural Code ( Strafprozessordnung – StPO ) provides some exceptions to the double jeopardy rule:

Members of the band and others in the chain of distribution were charged with violating the California Penal Code on a misdemeanor charge carrying a maximum penalty of up to a year in county jail and a base fine of up to $ 2, 000.

Under Section 377A of the Penal Code, the introduction of the penis into the anus or mouth of another person is considered a " carnal intercourse against the order of nature " and is punishable with imprisonment of 20 years maximum and whipping.

California effected regulations in 2000 that forced gun locks to be approved by a firearm safety device laboratory via California Penal Code Section 12088.

In 1830, the new Penal Code of the Brazilian Empire did not repeat the title XIII of fifth book of the " Ordenações Philipinas ", which made sodomy a crime.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

In Iceland, the hate speech law is not confined to inciting hatred, as one can see from Article 233 a. in the Icelandic Penal Code, but includes simply expressing such hatred publicly:

Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that " Idiots " were one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes.

The Model Penal Code, published by the American Law Institute, provides a standard for legal insanity that serves as a compromise between the strict M ' Naghten Rule, the lenient Durham ruling, and the irresistible impulse test.

* In 2006, the Turkish government prosecuted Fatih Tas, owner of the Aram editorial house, two editors and the translator of the revised ( 2001 ) edition of Manufacturing Consent for " stirring hatred among the public " ( per Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code ) and for " denigrating the national identity " of Turkey ( per Article 301 ), because that edition ’ s introduction addresses the Turkish news media ’ s reportage of governmental suppression of the Kurdish populace in the 1990s ; they were acquitted.

On the other hand, the California Penal Code allows for perjury to be a capital offense in cases causing wrongful execution.

Under the Model Penal Code, " the behavior in question is thought to corroborate the defendant's criminal purpose ," for example:

* and Switzerland ( Article 261bis of the Penal Code ).

** The California Penal Code goes into effect.

In his 1840 novel Le Notaire, he wrote that a young person in the legal profession sees " the oily wheels of every fortune, the hideous wrangling of heirs over corpses not yet cold, the human heart grappling with the Penal Code.

India criminalized homosexuality until June 2, 2009, when the High Court of Delhi declared section 377 of the Indian Penal Code invalid.

There are severe restrictions on children in India on their rights to have a relationship with both parents, when they are separated / divorced, especially when laws to protect women & children ( such as Domestic Violence Act, 2006 or Sec. 498A of Indian Penal Code ) are abused or misused by women.

As with the Penal Code of 1791, it did not contain provisions against religious crimes or same-sex sexual acts.

They also abolished any legal distinction between the Welsh and the English, thereby effectively ending the Penal Code although this was not formally repealed.

Section 377A of the Penal Code ( Singapore ) criminalizes " gross indecency " between men which includes consensual, private, adult homosexual acts.

Article 489 of the Penal Code of Morocco criminalizes “ lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex .”.

The articles of the Treaty protecting Catholic rights were not passed by the Protestant Irish Parliament but rather updated the Penal Laws against Catholics which had major implications for Irish history.

It imposes that that private law, penal law and the separate procedural laws covering these subjects must indeed be formal law and treated in a general Civil Code and a Penal Code, although certain subject might be covered by special laws.

In 2003, France criminalized mercenary activities, as defined by the protocol to the Geneva convention for French citizens, permanent residents and legal entities ( Penal Code, L436-1, L436-2, L436-3, L436-4, L436-5 ).

According to Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 speech, " On the Personality Cult and its Consequences ," and more recent findings, a great number of accusations, notably those presented at the Moscow show trials, were based on forced confessions, often obtained by torture, and on loose interpretations of Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code, which dealt with counter-revolutionary crimes.

An example of the obligation to help a person is the Argentina law on " abandonment of persons ", Articles 106-108 of the Argentine Penal Code, which include the provision in Article 106 " a person who endangers the life or health of another, either by putting a person in jeopardy or abandoning to their fate a person unable to cope alone who must be cared for ... will be imprisoned for between 2 and 6 years ".

* In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka upon which the movie La Colonia penal ( 1970 ) is based.

He also ended transportation to Van Diemen's Land for prisoners by passing the Penal Servitude Act 1853, which also reduced the maximum sentences for most offences.

In Poland, hand-held pepper spray ( called precisely in Polish Penal Code " a hand-held disabling gas thrower ") is considered a weapon, but can be carried by anyone over 18 without further registration or permission.

In the state of New York, pepper spray may be legally possessed by any person age 18 or over ; however, it must be purchased in person ( i. e., cannot be purchased by mail-order or internet sale ) either at a pharmacy or from a licensed firearm retailer ( NY Penal Law 265. 20 14 ( a )), and the seller must keep a record of purchases.

The Indian Penal Code ( 1860 ) was followed by the Criminal Procedure Code, 1872 and the Civil Procedure Code, 1909.

It is mentioned in a greeting to Enterprise psychologist Dr. Helen Noel by the director of Penal Colony Tantalus V, Dr. Adams, in the original Star Trek episode " Dagger of the Mind " ( 1966 ): " Welcome to Devil's Island, Doctor.

The Popery Act ( Penal Law ) of 1704 required land held ( typically in tenancy ) by Roman Catholics to be divided equally between all the sons, both legitimate and illegitimate, on his death.

This parliament operated under major restrictions, including Poynings ' Law and the Penal Laws, imposed by the English and British Crown, by the English and British Parliament and by the King-in-Council.

Miller was convicted by the Superior Court of Orange County, California ( the state trial court ) of having violated California Penal Code 311. 2 by mailing unsolicited sexually explicit material in violation of a California statute that fulfilled the criteria of the obscenity test formulated in the previous similar case of Memoirs v. Massachusetts.

The Blessed Henry Abbot was an English layman, himself a convert from the Church of England, who was executed at York on 4 July 1597 for the alleged attempt to convert someone to the Catholic Church, which had been declared an act of treason under the Penal law enacted under Queen Elizabeth I.

One of the more controversial sections of the California Penal Code are the consecutive Sections 666 and 667 ; Section 666, known officially as petty theft with a prior — and colloquially, felony petty theft — makes it possible for someone who committed a minor shoplifting crime to be charged with a felony if the person had been convicted of any theft-related offense at any time in the past ; and if the person so charged has two previous felony convictions ( listed as serious or violent felonies offenses ), this can result in a 25-years-to-life sentence under the state's three strikes law, which is found in Section 667.

* California California Penal Code § 198. 5 sets forth that unlawful, forcible entry into one's residence by someone not a member of the household creates the presumption that the resident held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury should he or she use deadly force against the intruder.