Compel - Law Dictionary Search Results

Railway

(1849) 18 LJ Ex 366; but the Railway Commissioners may compel a company to act as carriers; and some special Acts,

dis·cus·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing creditor to sue the principal first benefit of

attributed a meaning to give force or effect to; to compel obedience to (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v.

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Enforcement, means to impose or compel obedience to law or to compel observance of law, S.M.D.

Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. Hob. 96.--(The law does not compel to impossibilities.) see IMPOSSIBILITY. The law does not compel to

kinds of subp'na. At Common Law there are two to compel the attendance of witnesses:- (1) Subp'na ad testificandum, the common

same principal, when, upon his default, one of them is compelled to pay the money, or to perform any other obligation

a mere desire or wish on one hand and a compelling or dire or absolute necessity at the other--Such need maybe

all co-owners of land might make partition, and coparceners were compellable to do so by Common Law (English). Co-owners, other than

compulsion 1 : an act of compelling (as by threat or intimidation) ;specif : coercion [a payment

Try the research workspace — 7 days free