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Subpolar :: Subpoenal (a.) Required or done under penalty.

Corrective :: Corrective (a.) Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties..

Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication..

Convict :: Convict (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Guilty :: Guilty (superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment..

Custody :: Custody (n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

Discipline :: Discipline (v. t.) To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

Remission :: Remission (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc..

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine..

Doomage :: Doomage (n.) A penalty or fine for neglect.

Condemn :: Condemn (v. t.) To amerce or fine; -- with in before the penalty.

Penal :: Penal (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution..

Informer :: Informer (v.) One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.

Obligation :: Obligation (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses..

Fine :: Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars..

Penalize :: Penalize (v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3..

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