punitive

punitive: poenālis, e: a p. law, lex p., Gai. Inst. 1 § 128. (But usu. better expr. by verb: it is a question whether these evils are to be regarded as p., *quaeritur suppliciine sumendi causa necne haec mala [a Deo] constituta ac destinata sint: these laws are not p. but corrective, *legibus haec potius ad emendandos quam ad puniendos homines constituta sunt.)