The sanctions of law are the motives to obedience, the natural and the governmental consequences or results of obedience and of disobedience. They are remuneratory, that is, they promise reward to obedience. They are vindicatory, that is, they threaten the disobedient with punishment. They are natural, that is, happiness is to some extent naturally connected with, and the necessary consequence of, obedience to moral law, and misery is naturally and necessarily connected with, and results from, disobedience to moral law, or from acting contrary to the nature and relations of moral beings.
Sanctions are governmental.
The favor of the government as due to obedience. A positive reward bestowed upon the obedient by government. The displeasure of government towards the disobedient. Direct punishment inflicted by the government as due to disobedience. All happiness and misery resulting from obedience or disobedience, either natural, or from the favor, or frown of government, are to be regarded as constituting the sanctions of law.