Legal Definition and Related Resources of Punishment

The penalty for transgressing the law.

In criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court. Punishments are . either corporal or not corporal. The former are: Death, which is usually denominated “capital punishment;” imprisonment, which is either with or without labor (see “Penitentiary”) ; whipping, in some states ; and banishment. The punishments which are not corporal are: Pines, forfeitures; suspension or deprivation of some political or civil right; deprivation of office, and being rendered incapable to hold office; compulsion to remove nuisances.

noun

• amercement
• avengement
• castigatio
• castigation
• censure
• chastening
• chastisement
• compulsory payment
• correction
• damages
• deprivation
• disciplinary action
• discipline
• forfeiture
• infliction
• mulct
• nemesis
• penal retribution
• penalization
• penalty
• penalty imposed on an offender
• penance
• poena
• punition
• reprimand
• retribution
• retributive justice
• talion
• vengeance Associated Concepts: capital punishment
• corporal punishment
• cruel and inhuman punishment
• excessive punishmentforeign phrases: Nulla curia quae recordum non habet potest imponere finem neque aliquem mandare carceri; quia ista spectant tantummodo ad curias de recordo
• No court which has not a record can impose a fine nor commit any person to prison; because those powers belong only to courts of record
• Poena ad paucos
• metus ad omnes perveniat
• lf punishment is inflicted on a few
• a fear comes to all
• Nemo prudens punit utpraeterita revocentur
• sed ut futura praeveniantur
• No wise man punishes in order that past things may be revoked
• but that future wrongs may be prevented
• Ubi damna dantur
• victus victori in expensis condemnari debet
• Where damages are given
• the losing party ought to be condemned to pay costs to the victor
• Interest reipublicae ne maleficia remaneant impunita
• It concerns the state that crimes do not go unpunished
• Tutius semperest errare acquietando
• quam inpuniendo
• ex parte misericordiae quam ex parte justitiae
• It is always safer to err in acquitting than in punishing
• on the side of mercy rather tnan on the side of justice
• In omnibus poenalis judiciis
• et aetati et imprudentiae succurritur
• In all penal judgments
• allowance is made for youth and lack of prudence
• Quipeccat ebriusluat sobrius
• He who offends when drunk shall be punished when sober
• Melior est justitia vere praeveniens quam severe puniens
• Truly preventative justice is better than severe punishment
• Justitia est duplex
• viz
• severe puniens et vere praeveniens
• Justice is double
• that is to say punishing severely
• and truly preventing
• Quiparcitnocentibusinnocentes punit
• He who spares those who are guilty punishes those who are innocent
• Reus laesae majestatis punitur utpereat unus ne pereant omnes
• Poena non potest
• culpaperennis erit
• Punishment cannot be everlasting but error or sin will be
• Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur
• The judge is condemned when a guilty person is acquitted
• Lubricum linguae non facile trahendum est in poenam
• A slip of the tongue ought not readily be subjected to punishment
• In atrocioribus delictis punitur affectus licet non sequatur effectus
• In the more atrocious crimes the intent is punished
• although an effect does not follow
• Judex non potest injuriam sibi datam punire
• A judge cannot punish a wrong done to himself
• Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto
• No one can be punished twice for the same offense
• Transgressione multiplicata
• Upon the multiplication of transgression
• let the infliction of punishment be increased
• Poena suos tenere debet actores et non alios
• Punishment belongs to the guilty
• and not others
• Nemo cogitationis poenam patitur
• No one suffers punishment on account of his thoughts
• No one suffers punishment on account of his thoughts
• Receditur aplacitis juris
• potius quam injuriae etdelictamaneantimpunita
• ln order that crimes not go unpunished
• the law will be departed from
• The judge is condemned when a guilty person is acquitted
• Lubricum linguae non facile trahendum est in poenam
• A slip of the tongue ought not readily be subjected to punishment
• In atrocioribus delictis punitur affectus licet non sequatur effectus
• In the more atrocious crimes the intent is punished
• although an effect does not follow
• Judex non potest injuriam sibi datam punire
• A judge cannot punish a wrong done to himself
• Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto
• No one can be punished twice for the same offense
• Transgressione multiplicata
• crescat poenae inflictio
• Upon the multiplication of transgression
• let the infliction of punishment be increased
• Poena suos tenere debet actores et non alios
• Punishment belongs to the guilty
• and not others
• Nemo cogitationis poenam patitur
• No one suffers punishment on account of his thoughts
• Receditur aplacitis juris
• potius quam injuriae etdelictamaneantimpunita
• ln order that crimes not go unpunished
• the law will be departed from

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Accessory, Attainder, Benefit Of Clergy, Bill Of Attainder, Branding, Capital Punishment, Censure, Conviction, Cruel,
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English Spanish Translation of Punishment

Castigo

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Online translation of the English legal term punishment into Spanish: Pena (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
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• punishment in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
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• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Justice System: punishment

Definition of Punishment

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Punishment: A negative sanction imposed on the violator of a system of rules and imposed by an authorized agent of that system of rules. The criminal courts can punish people for their violations of criminal law, the referee can punish those who violate the rules of a game of hockey, the principal can punish students who violate rules of the school.

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• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Punishment. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada

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• Social Problem
• Crime
• Delinquency
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Delinquent
• Social Issues
• Crime Prevention