Penal \Pe"nal\, a. [L. poenalis, fr. poena punishment: cf. F.
   p['e]nal. See Pain.]
   Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes
   and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:
   (a) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue;
       the penal code.
   (b) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal
       act or offense.
   (c) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment;
       as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and
       penal fire." --Milton.
       [1913 Webster]

   Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and
      offenses and their punishment.

   Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibiting
      certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them.
      

   Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison,
      in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.]

   Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	penal
     adj 1: of or relating to punishment; "penal reform"; "penal code"
     2: serving as or designed to impose punishment; "penal
        servitude"; "a penal colony"
     3: subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense" [syn: punishable]

	

	PENAL. That which may be punished; that which inflicts a punishment. 
	

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