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Compulsatory

Operating with force compelling forcing constraining resulting from or enforced by compulsion

Compeller

One who compels or constrains

Compel

drive or urge with force or irresistibly to force to constrain to oblige to necessitate either by physical or moral force

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Coercive

Serving or intended to coerce having power to constrain

jus cogens

jus cogens [New Latin, literally, constraining law] : a principle of international law that is based

free

be free 2 : to relieve or rid of what constrains, confines, restricts, or burdens

free

be free 2 : to relieve or rid of what constrains, confines, restricts, or burdens

enjoin

enjoin [Anglo-French enjoindre to impose, constrain, from Old French, from Latin injungere to attach, impose, from

bind

Friedenthal et al."] 2 : to exert control over : constrain by legal authority [this court is bound by precedent] 3

Obligation

may be taken to be a tie or bond which constrains a person to do or suffer something. It implies a

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