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Criminal Evidence Act
her wife or husband became a competent, but not a compellable, witness for the defence at every stage of the proceedings.
Liable
'Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensation or restitution..... Obligated: accountable for or
Lex non cogit ad impossibilia
Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. Hob. 96.--(The law does not compel to impossibilities.) see IMPOSSIBILITY. The law does not compel to
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Uses
into a legal right to the land, and equity, therefore, compels the trustee, who retains the legal estate notwithstanding the statute,
Subp'na
kinds of subp'na. At Common Law there are two to compel the attendance of witnesses:- (1) Subp'na ad testificandum, the common
Strike
him inconsequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling persons employed by him to accept terms or conditions or
Railway
(1849) 18 LJ Ex 366; but the Railway Commissioners may compel a company to act as carriers; and some special Acts,
Petition of Right
were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or
Discovery
matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose any fact resting merely within his
Enforce
attributed a meaning to give force or effect to; to compel obedience to (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v.
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