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Punitive
Punitive Pu"ni*tive, a.
Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or
inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.
If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity
imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. -- I.
Taylor.
We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.
--Bagehot.
Meaning of Punitive from wikipedia
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Punitive damages, or
exemplary damages, are
damages ****essed in
order to
punish the
defendant for
outrageous conduct and/or to
reform or
deter the defendant...
- deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation. The
history of
formal punitive systems is one of a
gradual transition from
familial and
tribal authority...
- A
punitive expedition is a
military journey undertaken to
punish a
political entity or any
group of
people outside the
borders of the
punishing state or...
-
United States as the
Mexican Expedition, but
originally referred to as the "
Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army"—was a
military operation conducted by the United...
-
referred to as the
Insufferable Acts or
Coercive Acts, were a
series of five
punitive laws p****ed by the
British Parliament in 1774
after the
Boston Tea Party...
- The
Pripyat Marshes m****acres (German: Prypyatsümpfe Säuberung) were a
series of m****
murders carried out by the
military forces of ****
Germany against...
- A
Pigouvian tax (also
spelled Pigovian tax) is a tax on any
market activity that
generates negative externalities (i.e.,
external costs incurred by third...
-
Extrajudicial punishment is a
punishment for an
alleged crime or
offense which is
carried out
without legal process or
supervision by a
court or tribunal...
- The
following is a list of
battles of the
Mongol invasion of
Kievan Rus' (1223, 1237–1241).
Timeline of the
Golden Horde –
including all
battles involving...
- A sin tax (also
known as a
sumptuary tax, or vice tax) is an
excise tax
specifically levied on
certain goods deemed harmful to
society and individuals...
