Poena

2.

Punishment; a penalty; also, it would seem, damages. Poena ex delicto defuncti h^eres teneri non debet: the heir ought not to be bound by a penalty arising out of the wrongful act of the deceased. Poena snos tenere debet actores [auctores] et non alios: punishment ought to bind its own authors [those who have caused In old English law. pccnniaria: pecuniary of the pillory. In the civil law.