When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to penal sanctions for breaches of contract of employment by indigenous workers.

It sought to codify the general use of penal sanctions for breach of contract by workers against their employers.

In a free state, no political authority has the right to define historical truth and to restrain the freedom of the historian with the threat of penal sanctions.