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enforce en·forced en·forc·ing : to cause to take effect or to be fulfilled [enforcing the divorce decree] [Congress shall have power to this article by appropriate legislation "U.S. Constitution amend. XIX"] ...
enforceable
enforceable : capable of being enforced esp. as legal or valid [creditors with contract rights "L. H. Tribe"] ...
enforcement
enforcement : the act or process of enforcing [ of the debt] ...
Enforce
Enforce, has been attributed a meaning to give force or effect to; to compel obedience to (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573.In general, to cause to be executed or performed, to cause to take effect, or to compel obedience to, as to enforce laws or rules; to control; to execute with vigor; to put in execution; to put in force: also to exact, or to obtain authoritatively. The word is used in a multiplicity of ways and is given many shades of meaning and applicability, but it does not necessarily imply actual force or coercion. As applied to process, the term implies execution and embraces all the legal means of collecting a judgment, including proceedings supplemental to execution (corpus juris secundum) Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573....
Enforceable
Enforceable, means enforceable in practical way according to law, Chohan v. Times Newspapers Ltd., (2001) 1 WLR 1859....
Enforcement authority
Enforcement authority, means in relation to any function to be executed and enforced on board any through train in accordance with the power to question persons, the Secretary of State, Halsbury's Laws of England (38), para 472, p. 437....
Gazetted Officer of Enforcement
Gazetted Officer of Enforcement, means any person appointed to be an officer of Enforcement under s. 40 of the FERA, 1973 holding a gazetted post, Pushpa Devi M. Jatia v. M.L. Wadhavan, AIR 1987 SC 1748: (1987) 3 SCC 367: (1987) 3 SCR 46....
Law enforcement officer
Law enforcement officer, means a person whose duty is to enforce the laws and preserve the peace, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 891....
To enforce any right or supposed right
To enforce any right or supposed right, in order to attract the provisions of s. 149 the prosecution must establish that there was an unlawful assembly and that the crime was committed in prosecution of the common object of the assembly. The assertion of a right of private defence within the limits prescribed by law cannot fall within the expression 'to enforce any right or supposed right' in the fourth clause of s. 141. The assembly could not be designated as an unlawful assembly if its object was to defend property by the use of force within the limits prescribed by law, State of Bihar v. Nathu Pandey, AIR 1970 SC 27: (1969) 2 SCC 207: (1970) 1 SCR 358....
Enforce
To put force upon to force to constrain to compel as to enforce obedience to commands...
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