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Criminal Code Bill
British history
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development of British criminal law
- In crime: Common law
…and in 1879–80 a draft criminal code bill was again presented to Parliament. Largely the work of the celebrated legal author and judge James Fitzjames Stephen, this code received widespread publicity throughout England and its colonial possessions. Although it was not adopted in England, it was subsequently enacted in Canada…
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