The first and most general distribution of punishments, is into “divine” and “human.” Of the former I shall have occasion to speak in a more convenient place hereafter.

“Human,” are those punishments that be inflicted by the commandment of man; and are either “corporal,” or “pecuniary,” or “ignominy,” or “imprisonment,” or “exile,” or mixed of these.

“Corporal punishment” is that which is inflicted on the body directly, and according to the intention of him that inflicteth it: such as are stripes, or wounds, or deprivation of such pleasures of the body as were before lawfully enjoyed.