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legal constraint — The holding of a person or property under legal process; not duress. State ex rel. Cabel v Sewerage & Water Board (La App) 138 So 2d 856 … Ballentine's law dictionary
constraint — I (imprisonment) noun act of keeping in, apprehension, arrest, bondage, bonds, bounds, captivity, care, charge, commitment, confinement, containment, control, custodianship, custody, detainment, detention, encincture, enclosure, enthrallment,… … Law dictionary
constraint by force — index bondage, coercion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
constraint to obedience — index compulsion (coercion) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
legal restraint — index constraint (imprisonment), detention, deterrence, deterrent, durance, embargo, estoppel … Law dictionary
constraint — n. restriction 1) to impose, place, put a constraint on, upon 2) legal constraints control 3) to show constraint compulsion 4) under constraint (to act under constraint) * * * [kən streɪnt] place put a constraint on upon [ control ] to show… … Combinatory dictionary
constraint — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ important, major ▪ severe, tight ▪ The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year. ▪ budget, budgetary … Collocations dictionary
LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEM — UNDER THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1876–1917) Judiciary Throughout the period from the promulgation of the Ottoman Constitution of 1876 until the present time there have been both secular and religious courts exercising jurisdiction in the territory of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
constraint — noun 1 (C) something that limits your freedom to do what you want; restriction (+ on): These new policies place additional constraints on housing projects. | financial/legal/cultural etc constraints: Financial constraints limited her choice of… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Legal history of wills — Wills in the Ancient WorldThe will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In… … Wikipedia
