a. [ L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F. pénal. See Pain. ] Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: (a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. (b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal act or offense. (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. “Adamantine chains and penal fire.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibiting certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. -- Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [ Great Brit. ] -- Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.; pl.Penalties [ F. pénalité. See Penal. ] 1. Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. [ 1913 Webster ]
Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine. [ 1913 Webster ]
The penalty and forfeit of my bond. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. A handicap. [ Sporting Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The term penalty is in law mostly applied to a pecuniary punishment. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bill of pains and penalties. See under Bill. -- On penalty of, or Under penalty of, on pain of; with exposure to the penalty of, in case of transgression. [ 1913 Webster ]
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