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In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the kingdom's Roman Catholic majority and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters".
The Republic of Ireland has no set criminal code. Instead, criminal law is set out in a diverse range of statutes and court decisions. Crime is investigated by the police force, the Garda Síochána.
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After the Norman conquest of Ireland, English law provided the model for Irish law. This originally mandated a death sentence for any felony, a class of crimes established by common law but, in Ireland as in England, was extended by various Acts of Parliament; [4] a situation later dubbed the "Bloody Code".
The statute law of Ireland includes law passed by the following: [8] Pre-union Irish statutes the King of England as a lawgiver for Ireland, and the Parliament of Ireland (1169–1800) English and British statutes, which applied to Ireland in their original enactment or were subsequently applied to Ireland the King of England (1066–1241)
In the Kingdom of Ireland, a subordinate but separate state, a similar "Bloody Code" existed, but there were not as many capital crimes. [ 10 ] As the number of capital crimes increased, lawmakers sought a less harsh punishment that might still deter potential offenders, and penal transportation with a term of indentured servitude became a more ...
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Penal laws may refer to: Criminal law; Penal law (British), laws to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Catholicism; Penal laws (Ireland), laws to coerce the Irish to accept the anglican Church of Ireland from 1695-1829; Penal laws against the Welsh 1401–2, Laws against the Welsh people to coerce obedience to English rule