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Poena

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Punishment.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. Punishment, penalty; damages. Poena oorporalis: corporal punishment. Poenalis: penal. '