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Secta facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem

facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem, a writ to compel the heir, who has the elder's part of the co-heirs,

Reparatione facienda

facienda, an ancient writ, which lay in many cases to compel repairs, Fitz. N.B. 127.

Redemption

debt. An action of redemption is a suit brought to compel the mortgagee to recover the property to the mortgagor on

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Rattering

destroying machinery, and the like in an attempt either to compel a worker to join a union or to enforce a

Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854

and the Court of Session in Scotland were empowered to compel railway and canal companies (1) to grant reason-able facilities for

Quod jussu

slave upon the authorisation of the father or master, to compel the father or master to honour the agreement, Black's Law

Compulsive

Having power to compel exercising or applying compulsion

Compel

To drive or urge with force or irresistibly to force to constrain to oblige to necessitate either by physical or...

Power

divested by the execution of the power, but equity will compel the person seised of it to clothe the estate created

force

policy in force] vt forced forc·ing 1 a : to compel by physical means often against resistance [forced him into the

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