Compelling - Law Dictionary Search Results
Compelled
place positively and negatively. When one forces one to act in a manner desired by him it is compelling him to do that thing. Same may take place when one is prevented from doing a particular thing
Exaction
The act of demanding with authority and compelling to pay or yield compulsion to give or furnish a levying by force a driving to compliance as
Discovery
of an unjust demand, or the redress of a wrong; an infirmity which the equity judges cured by compelling such a party to disclose the fact, or discover the document, upon his oath, in his answer to
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Distress infinite
the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such are distresses for fealty or suit of Court, and for compelling jurors to attend, the under a writ of delivery, as to which see DETINUE.
Enforcement
Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573. The act or process of compelling compliance with a law, mandate or command, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 549.
Equality of the statute
called the 'equity of the statute'. Words must be given their 'literal' or 'ordinary' meaning unless there are compelling reasons, recognised by canons of construction, to the contrary, Authorised Officer v. S. Naganatha Ayyar, (1979) 3 SCC
Exhibition
in the universities, not depending on the foundation, Paroch.Antiq. 304. In Scots law it is an action for compelling the production of writings.
Fild-ale, or Filk-ale
A term applied to an extortionate practice of officers of the forest, and of bailiffs of hundreds, of compelling persons to contribute to the supplying them with drink etc., Prohibited by the Carta de Foresta, 4 Inst.
Married women's property
which some control at least over her property was secured to her, and also in certain cases by compelling the husband to give the wife her 'equity to a settlement' by making a somewhat similar settlement of
Perpetuating testimony
claim. A common case used to be that of a devisee establishing a will against the heir-at-law, by compelling him to litigate the question at once or not at all, and by perpetuating the evidence of the
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