Now, in the case of a penal offence, mark where the difference would be!

He deliberately committed a penal offence, and so compelled the young lady's people to withdraw their consent to the marriage."

Persons charged with a penal offence are presumed innocent until proven guilty in accordance with the law.

An Act which made it a penal offence to erect commemorative statuary anywhere within three miles of a public highway."

Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Yet in may of last year the generalissimo made it a penal offence to be in possession of any foreign currency whatsoever.

Finally in 1955 the Hindu Marriage Act introduced monogamy for all Hindus and made bigamy a penal offence.

Very similar provisions are found in Article 15, paragraph 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, replacing the term "penal offence" with "criminal offence".

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.

It was a penal offence for a worker to leave his current job at such a "Controlled Establishment" without the consent of his employer, which in practice was "almost impossible" to obtain.

His first wife, Lady Catherine Grey, was a potential claimant to Elizabeth's throne, and law established that it was a penal offence for her to marry without notifying the Sovereign.

Any act which would be a penal offence if done to a free man, shall be equally an offence if done to any person on the pretext of his being in a condition of slavery.

In early trials witnesses speak of seeing the accused riding on poles, or brooms, across the fields (not through the air), and this was often accepted as the evidence that they were practising fertility magic, which became a penal offence.

A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent.

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.