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Penal bond

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A bond exacting a penalty and not liquidated damages for its breach. See 82 Me. 516, 17 Am. St. Rep. 500, 9 L. R. A. 113, 20 Atl. 84.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A band promising to pay a named sum of money (the penalty) with a condition underwritten that, if a stipulated collateral thing, other than the payment of money, be done or forborne, as the case may be, the obligation shall be void. Bum-side v. Wand, 170 Mo. 531, 71 S. W. 337, 62 L. R. A. 427.

Defined under Penal in Black's Law Dictionary.