Constrict - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: constrictdistrain
distrain [Anglo-French destreindre, literally, to constrict, force, from Old French, from Late Latin distringere to hinder, punish, from Latin, to pull in different directions, distract, from dis- apart + stringere to draw tight] vt 1 : to force or compel to satisfy an obligation by means of a distress 2 : to seize by distress compare enter vi : to levy a distress dis·train·able adj dis·train·er [-strā-nər] or dis·train·or [di-strā-nər, dis-trā-nōr] n ...
Constrict
To draw together to render narrower or smaller to bind to cramp to contract or cause to shrink...
Constrictive
Serving or tending to bind or constrict...
Constringe
To dawn together to contract to force to contract itself to constrict to cause to shrink...
Low visibility rules
Low visibility rules, these are rules of law which are made inaccessible to the public. Generally these are obscure laws, with far reaching powers and which infringe fundamental rights and those which the state does not wish to publicize. 'Fundamental rights cease to be viable if laws calculated to constrict their sweep are withheld from public access; and the freedoms under Art. 19(1) cannot be restricted by hidden or 'low visibility rules' beyond discovery by fair search. ' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1721), para 93] - here reference is made to the Punjab Jail Manual which was not made available to prisoners and was priced so high that few could buy. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Constriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself as distinguished from compression...
Coarctate
Pressed together closely connected applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction...
Constricted
Drawn together bound contracted cramped...
constricting
hindering freedom of movement...
Constrictor
That which constricts draws together or contracts...
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial