Accumulation principle
The accumulation principle is a legal term from the criminal law doctrine of competition. It says that when several offenses are committed, the individual penalties are added (cumulative) ( tot poenae quot delicta ), which in individual cases can lead to very high total penalties . According to the asperation principle established in Germany, however , the total penalty must not reach the sum of the individual penalties.
Austria
The accumulation principle applies, for example, to Austrian administrative criminal law . If someone has committed several administrative offenses through various independent acts or if an act falls under several non-mutually exclusive threats of punishment, the penalties are to be imposed side by side.
Canon Law
In addition, the principle of accumulation applies in canon law . In the case of criminal offenses, the validity is without exception; 1344 a reduction exercised according to prudent judgment.