Compulsive - Law Dictionary Search Results

Duress [fr. duresse, Fr.; durities, Lat., constraint], imprisonment, compulsion. Duress is either by imprisonment or by threats. In order to constitute duress by imprisonment, either the imprisonment

privilege

privilege against self-incrimination : a privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting a person from compulsion to make self-incriminating statements re·port·er's privilege : a privilege protecting a reporter from compulsion to reveal information acquired

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Enforcive

Serving to enforce or constrain compulsive

exhibitionist

a person with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals usually a male

Contribution

meaning. It cannot be understood as donations. If that be so, a voluntary contribution cannot amount to a compulsive donation. If the donor, in order to gain an advantage or benefit, if he apprehends that but the

obsessed

having or showing excessive or compulsive concern used with with

Shall

requirement of law is mandatory or directory. But the circumstance that the legislature has used a language of compulsive force is always of great relevance and in the absence of anything contrary in the context indicating that

May be accepted as evidence

May be accepted as evidence, indicate that there is no compulsion on the court to accept such transaction as evidence, but it is open to the court to treat

Compelled

prevented from doing a particular thing unless he agrees to do as desired. In either case it is compulsion, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (763): 1994 SCC (Cri) 899.

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