The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
b) A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine oclock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
See Also: penal, penality
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