Penal

a.
  1. Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
  2. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal act or offense.
  3. Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
    4. 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.
    Penal suit, Penal action (Law),
    a suit for penalties.