Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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nomine poenae

n. [Latin "in the name of penalty"] 1. Civil law. A clause in a testament requiring the heir to do something by way of penalty. 2. At common law, a penalty for nonperformance, such as additional rent to be paid by a tenant to a landlord for failing to perform certain conditions in a lease.