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adj. Of, relating to, or prescribing punishment, as for breaking the law.

adj. Subject to punishment; legally punishable: a penal offense.

adj. Serving as or constituting a means or place of punishment: penal servitude; a penal colony.

adj. Of, or relating to punishment.

adj. Subject to punishment; punishable.

adj. Serving as a place of punishment.

adj. Enacting or threatening punishment.

adj. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty.

adj. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment.

Of or pertaining to punishment.

Constituting punishment; inflicted as a punishment.

Subject to penalty; incurring punishment: as, penal neglect.

Used as a place of punishment: as, a penal settlement.

Payable or forfeitable as a punishment, as on account of breach of contract, etc.: as, a penal sum.

In a more general sense, those statutes which impose a new liability for the doing or omitting of an act. Thus, a statute making the officers of a corporation personally liable for its debts if they neglect to file an annual report of its affairs is apenal statute.

adj. of or relating to punishment

adj. subject to punishment by law

adj. serving as or designed to impose punishment

"Immigration Judges may be required to conduct hearings in penal institutions and other remote locations."

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