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compulsory payment — A payment compelled by force of law either directly through process or by suasion through threat of process which is not to be resisted. Blanchard v Blanchard, 201 NY 134, 94 NE 630. To constitute a compulsory payment, it is not essential that… … Ballentine's law dictionary
compulsory payment — required payments, obligatory payments (such as taxes, etc.) … English contemporary dictionary
compulsory — In ecclesiastical procedure, a compulsory is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to undergo examination compulsory, adj Involuntary; forced; coerced by legal process or by force of statute @ compulsory attendance Refers to legal … Black's law dictionary
compulsory — In ecclesiastical procedure, a compulsory is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to undergo examination compulsory, adj Involuntary; forced; coerced by legal process or by force of statute @ compulsory attendance Refers to legal … Black's law dictionary
payment — The fulfilment of a promise, or the performance of an agreement. A discharge of an obligation or debt, and part payment, if accepted, is a discharge pro tanto. In a more restricted legal sense payment is the performance of a duty, promise, or… … Black's law dictionary
Compulsory voting — Compulsory voting, enforced. Compulsory voting, not enforced. Compulsory vo … Wikipedia
Compulsory purchase in England and Wales — Compulsory purchase is the power to acquire rights over an estate in land, or to buy that estate outright, regardless of the willingness or otherwise of its current owner, in return for recompense. In England and Wales Parliament has granted… … Wikipedia
Compulsory license — A compulsory license, also known as statutory license or mandatory collective management, provides that the owner of a patent or copyright licenses the use of their rights against payment either set by law or determined through some form of… … Wikipedia
Compulsory sterilization — Part of a series on Discrimination General forms … Wikipedia
voluntary payment — A payment of an illegal demand, with a full knowledge of all the facts which render the demand illegal, without an immediate and urgent necessity therefor, unless it is to release his person or property from detention or to prevent an immediate… … Ballentine's law dictionary
