Difference between Punitive and Penal

PUNITIVE vs PENAL: ADJECTIVE

Pertaining to or involving punishment; awarding or inflicting punishment: as, punitive law or justice.
(noun plural) Punitive damages.

Of or pertaining to punishment.
Constituting punishment; inflicted as a punishment.
Subject to penalty; incurring punishment: as, penal neglect.
Used as a place of punishment: as, a penal settlement.
Payable or forfeitable as a punishment, as on account of breach of contract, etc.: as, a penal sum.
In a more general sense, those statutes which impose a new liability for the doing or omitting of an act. Thus, a statute making the officers of a corporation personally liable for its debts if they neglect to file an annual report of its affairs is apenal statute.
(of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law

Criminal, Disincentive, Remedial, Punishment, Deterrent, Dissuasive, Punishing, Sanctions, Punish, Coercive, Retaliatory, Punitory, Penitentiary, Correctional, Penal

Punishments, Sentences, Punishment, Justice, Criminal, Prison, Borstal, Correctional, Penitentiary, Prisons, Judicial, Punitory, Illegal, Punishable, Punitive

Criminal, Disincentive, Remedial, Punishment, Deterrent, Dissuasive, Punishing, Sanctions, Punish, Coercive, Retaliatory, Punitory, Penitentiary, Correctional, Penal

Repressive, Sentences, Punishment, Justice, Criminal, Prison, Borstal, Correctional, Penitentiary, Prisons, Judicial, Punitory, Illegal, Punishable, Punitive

All civil actions in which punitive damages are permitted, no claim for damages shall be filed containing a prayer for relief seeking punitive damages.
Punitive damages are sometimes unavailable due to a split of authority on whether a court can award punitive damages under the statute.
Moreover, where no punitive damages have been awarded against an employee, no punitive damages can be vicariously imputed to the employer.
Punitive or potentially punitive policies were more commonly enacted than were policies supporting treatment.
Instead, the party seeking punitive damages should file a pretrial motion and request a hearing on punitive damages.
The award included an unspecified amount for punitive damages, but the original claim did not include a punitive damage request.
Unfortunately, it was a punitive, somewhat punitive peace treaty but they worked hard to get a conference held in August.
Punitive damages should be assessed in light of the ratio between punitive and actual damages.
Information on whether punitive damages were sought indicates formal requests for punitive damages.
Compensatory, punitive and possible attorney fees if punitive damages are awarded.

Penal Code, are among several provisions of that code that apply not only within the code itself but to penal laws generally.
Penal Law The Penal Law proscribes and punishes several actions involving computers and electronically stored information.
More importantly, any penal code which seeks to strip the individual of his or her worth and dignity is no penal code at all.
For purposes of this section, penal institution includes a jail, prison, penitentiary, house of correction, or other place of penal detention.
Under the relevant provisions of the Penal Code, sanctions are penal in nature and typically entail either monetary fines or restrictions on liberty.
Penal servitude for life is superseded by penal servitude from five to twenty years.
Penal Code, the Sharia Penal Codes continue to permit husbands to beat wives.
Model acts often contain penal provisions that duplicate offenses contained in the Penal Code or other law.
List of all Penal Law Offenses in the New York State Penal Code.
REVISING the PENAL CODE and OTHER PENAL laws act.