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Pre-contract

a canonical impediment to the marriage of either party. The Ecclesiastical Courts would formerly enforce this agreement, by compelling the parties to a public marriage, and if one of them had already married, such marriage would be

Printers

12, s. 2, contained in the second schedule thereto, as being excepted from the repeals effected thereby. For compelling discovery of the printer of a newspaper, see Dixon v. Enoch, (1872) LR 13 Eq. 394.

Prior or previous

the contextual situation or the object and design of the legislation demands it but there are no such compelling circumstances justifying reading any such implication into s. 29(1). On the other hand, the indications are all to

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Privileged communication

Privileged communication, a communication which a witness cannot be compelled to divulge, such as that which takes place between husband and wife (see the (English) Evidence Amendment Act,

Public Authorities, Protection of

pursuance of the Acts. This protection was given by requiring the plaintiff to give notice of action, by compelling him to try the action in the place where the cause of it arose, by requiring him to

Quo jure

him who had land wherein another challenged common of pasture, time out of mind; and it was to compel him to show by what title he challenged it, Fitz. N.B. 158.

Quod jussu

by one who contracted with a son or slave upon the authorisation of the father or master, to compel the father or master to honour the agreement, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262.

Rattering

Rattering, means the practice of taking away tools, destroying machinery, and the like in an attempt either to compel a worker to join a union or to enforce a company's compliance with union rules. Rattering was formerly

Secta facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem

Secta facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem, a writ to compel the heir, who has the elder's part of the co-heirs, to perform suit and services for all the

Recognition

recognition, but it must be such as to lead to that inevitable conclusion. Mere inaction de hors such compelling circumstances cannot amount to recognition within the meaning of the section, T.V.V. Narasimhamam v. State of Orissa, AIR

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