This decree was followed a year later by the promulgation of new legal codes the penal code, the code of penal procedure, and the code of civil procedure.
Like some other Middle Eastern codes, the Code of Hammurabi deals consecutively with penal law, the law of persons, family law, and price lists.
Beginning in 1990, the sultan encouraged the people to adhere more rigidly to traditional Islamic principles, and in 2014, Brunei made international headlines for its adoption of the strict penal code of Syariah (Shari'ah) law for criminal cases.
Then the American Law Institute hired him as a special consultant for drafting its Model Penal Code, a source of the state's current Penal Law.
In April 2002, a new article was introduced into Swiss penal law stating that the possession of pornographic material depicting sexual acts with children, excrement, animals, as well as violent sexual intercourse, is illegal (Art.197 Swiss Penal Code).
Having triad societies, such as 14 K or Wo On Lok, operate in one's establishments was a violation of Art 288 of the Penal code of the Macao gaming law, which provides for the offence of criminal association (Chan 2012, p. 127).
The proviso was added in 1887 to § 225 of the Penal Code of Minnesota of 1885 (Laws Minn. 1887, chap. 54).
In dry practical terms, this means repressive laws – for example articles 80(d), 98bis(d), 98(f), 102, 102bis, 171, 178, 179, 181, 188, 201 and 308 of the penal code, and review law 84 (the law of associations) – must be either swept way or amended in line with international standards.
This work consisted of a Code of Civil Procedure, a Penal Code, and a Code of Criminal Procedure.
The police then opened an investigation into his "homosexuality" under article 230 of the Tunisian penal code — a controversial law that punishes sodomy with up to three years in prison.
