Practice question · Numerical answer
Into how many classes does Article 13 of the Criminal Code sort offences by the gravity of their penalty?
Hints
- Serious offences are one of them.
- Graves, menos graves and leves.
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3
Why
Three: graves, menos graves and leves. The classification is not decorative, it determines the procedure, the competent court, the limitation periods and whether attempts and preparatory acts are punishable, so getting an offence into the right class settles a great many downstream questions at once.
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