Example of Nullum Crimen Nulla Poena Sine Lege & Meaning

Nullum Crimen Nulla Poena Sine Lege

Nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege is a Latin phrase which has direct translation in English language of "No crime, no punishment without law." Is a logical phrase that should anyone not punish in the act which there was no law that punish or govern that prohibits the acts of the people which sojourn in the country?

There is no crime if there is no law is the near meaning of this phrase. There were no countries yet in this planet convicted any single man which done an act which punished by the governments which has the authority to commence the investigation after the prohibited acts were committed and authority has no right to hold the person without valid reason and might just violated the human rights of the person if in case happened.

Nullum Crimen Nulla Poena Sine Lege Meaning

Nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege means there is no aggravated or victim, no obligation set by laws, no holds for investigation as cause of violation due to no law that exist to punish the person.

The questions sometimes if who comes first; is it the law or crime? The answer in this question should the law, due to the crime was existed only if there was law that defined the crime that should put the person into custody to answer the violation.

Law is the first and that is forever position that no one can get and the second is the crime and the next was the victim and the fourth was the people of the country due to there is victim-less crime.

If victim-less crime exist, there was already law but there was no offended party to initiate the complaint but by the law enforcer to punish the creator of the crime through filling of complaint in the next stage of criminal justice where no one is complains therefore not all complaint was initiated by the ordinary citizen but by the agent of the person in authority.

 Nullum Crimen Nulla Poena Sine Lege Example

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Note this is only an example:

Back from the previous age where there was no law that prohibited the act of rape.

A, B, C and D are men. E, F, G, H, I and J are women. Those four men rape many times those women. Due to there was no law that punish them even though the acts were against to the women still those men raped those women had obligation not in the eyes in the public nor obligation from the society and same manners or form of obligation.

In this age where there was no crime might the volume of rape incidents was very high for sure and might the reason of  escalation of the human race on the earth. Maybe, there was no complainant due to there was no authority that handled such case.

Let us assume that there was no law which punishes the rape incidents nor slightest mentioned on the criminal code. What happen to the country if there was no law that protects the woman for rape?

One thing is for sure; the rape incidents is very high and might cause of commotion on the society. We cannot charge the men those raped the women due to it is okay to do so; we are free to do so.