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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

him inconsequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling persons employed by him to accept terms or conditions or

(1849) 18 LJ Ex 366; but the Railway Commissioners may compel a company to act as carriers; and some special Acts,

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were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or

Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. Hob. 96.--(The law does not compel to impossibilities.) see IMPOSSIBILITY. The law does not compel to

matter. The Courts of Common Law were originally unable to compel a litigant to disclose any fact resting merely within his

her wife or husband became a competent, but not a compellable, witness for the defence at every stage of the proceedings.

a form of forced labour under which a person is compelled to work without receiving any remuneration. Molesworth describes 'begar' as

The act of compelling or the state of being compelled the act of driving

an equitable remedy in the form of a court order compelling a party to do or refrain from doing a specified

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