Imperial Penal Code

The Imperial Penal Code, also known as the Imperial Legal Code and simply Imperial Code, was a body of laws issued by the Galactic Empire. It represented the branch of Imperial legal statutes concerned with criminal law. It consisted of seventeen volumes.

Documented extracts include: Imperial Legal Code, Section Fourteen, Subsection Nine, Part C-dash-one, and Section 2127, which laid out the requirements for legal assassinations.

One particular model of the groomer (an advanced model of the older XP-21) contained all seventeen volumes of the code.

Infractions of the code had five different classifications based on the level of violation: Class Five, Class Four, Class Three, Class Two and Class One infractions, with Class Five and One being the less and most severe offense respectively.

The Imperial Code was enforced separately and parallel to local systemic laws. For example, while smuggling some restricted spice would be fined with a small fee according to the Imperial Code, the same violation was punishable by execution in some particular systems.

Text and facts from the “Imperial Penal Code/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.