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Nulla poena sine lege (Latin for "no penalty without law", Anglicized pronunciation: / ˈ n ʌ l ə ˈ p iː n ə ˈ s aɪ n iː ˈ l iː dʒ iː / NUL-ə PEE-nə SY-nee LEE-jee) is a legal formula which, in its narrow interpretation, states that one can only be punished for doing something if a penalty for this behavior is fixed in criminal law.
The principle of legality in criminal law [1] was developed in the eighteenth century by the Italian criminal lawyer Cesare Beccaria and holds that no one can be convicted of a crime without a previously published legal text which clearly describes the crime (Latin: nulla poena sine lege, lit. 'no punishment without law').
The principle of legality of punishment and crime was identified and conceptualized in the Enlightenment.It is generally attributed to Cesare Beccaria but Montesquieu indicated that "the judges of the Nation are only the mouth that pronounces the words of the law" [b] as early as 1748, in The Spirit of the Law (French: L'Esprit des lois
nulla poena sine lege: no penalty without a law: Refers to the legal principle that one cannot be punished for doing something that is not prohibited by law, and is related to Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali. nulla quaestio: there is no question, there is no issue nulla tenaci invia est via: For the tenacious, no road is ...
Nulla poena sine culpa "No punishment without fault." A person can not be punished for a crime that they are not guilty of. Nulla poena sine lege or nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali "No penalty without law" or "no crime, no punishment without a previous penal law".
Nullum crimen sine lege: No-one can face punishment except for an act that was criminalized before he performed the act Nulla poena sine culpa: no punishment without fault One cannot be punished for something that they are not guilty of. nudum pactum: naked promise
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The principle that no one be convicted of a crime without a written legal text which clearly describes the crime is widely accepted and codified in modern democratic states as a basic requirement of the rule of law. It is known in Latin as nulla poena sine lege.