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Enforcement

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

Distringas

Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England

Contribution

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

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Reasonable

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

Magna Carta

year, arming themselves in the mean time, so as to compel John, if necessary, to confirm those liberties which had been

Forced labour

India, Article 23) It may be physical force which may compel a person to provide labour or service to another or

Nemo tenetur prodere seipsum

Act, 1898 (see that title), make defendants competent, but not compellable, to give evidence.

Parish Apprentices

persons as were thought fitting; who were no longer, however, compellable to take them, Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, s. 13.

Compellable

Capable of being compelled or constrained

Court-leet

court, Steph. Com., Book VI., Ch. xiv. The lord was compellable to hold a court by mandamus, and a leet was

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