Sanctio
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
I. A sanction; the part of laws prescribing a reward or penalty. Sanctio juata, jubens honesta et prohibens contraria: a just sanction, authorizing what is right and forbidding what is not.