Nomine Poena - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition nomine-poena

Definition :

Nomine poena (under the description of a penalty), an additional rent payable by way of penalty in the event of certain acts prejudicial to the landlord being done by the tenant, as if he should plough up pasture.

The (English) Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923 (1 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), by s. 29 restricts penal rents to actual damage suffered, excepting, however, from this restriction penal rents for breaking up permanent pasture, grubbing underwoods, felling, etc., trees, or relating to the burning of heather. See Aggs on Agricultural Holdings.