Compellable - Law Dictionary Search Results
Commandeer
To compel to perform military service to seize for military purposes orig used of the Boers
Coactive
Serving to compel or constrain compulsory restrictive
Cloud compeller
Cloud gatherer an epithet applied to Zeus
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Partition
577. Partition, the act of dividing. Before 1926 all co-owners of land might make partition, and coparceners were compellable to do so by Common Law (English). Co-owners, other than coparcener or copy-holders, were compellable to make partition
Witness
his evidence. See OATH and AFFIRMATION. In civil cases, as a rule, husband and wife are competent and compellable witnesses against each other [Evidence Amendment Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 83), s. 1], but husbands
Distringas
cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:- (1) a distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England or Wales. The writ was abolished by the
Enforcement
Enforcement, means to impose or compel obedience to law or to compel observance of law, S.M.D. Kiran Pasha v. Govt. of A.P., (1990) 1
Contribution
arises between sureties, who are bound for the same principal, when, upon his default, one of them is compelled to pay the money, or to perform any other obligation for which they all became bound; the surety
Forced labour
Rajasthan, AIR 1983 SC 328 (332). (Constitution of India, Article 23) It may be physical force which may compel a person to provide labour or service to another or it may be force exerted through a legal
Magna Carta
sovereign in the early part of the ensuing year, arming themselves in the mean time, so as to compel John, if necessary, to confirm those liberties which had been confirmed by the charters of his predecessors, and
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