Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
compulsion — com·pul·sion /kəm pəl shən/ n 1: an act of compelling (as by threat or intimidation); specif: coercion a payment exacted by lawless compulsion E. A. Farnsworth and W. F. Young 2: the state of being compelled; specif … Law dictionary
compulsión — sustantivo femenino 1. Área: psicología Tendencia obsesiva a la repetición de determinadas acciones: Este chico está muy mal, se porta según la compulsión que lo domine. 2. Área: derecho Obligación de hacer algo, por mandato de una autoridad… … Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española
compulsion — UK [kəmˈpʌlʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms compulsion : singular compulsion plural compulsions 1) [countable] a very strong feeling of wanting to do something, especially a feeling that you cannot control He felt a sudden compulsion to tell her the… … English dictionary
compulsion — com|pul|sion [ kəm pʌlʃən ] noun 1. ) count a very strong feeling of wanting to do something, especially a feeling that you cannot control: He felt a sudden compulsion to tell her the truth. 2. ) uncount a legal or other obligation to do… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Legal professional privilege (Australia) — This article is about an Australian legal term. For the Commonwealth equivalent, see solicitor client privilege; and for the United States, see Attorney client privilege. Legal professional privilege in Australia, also referred to as client legal … Wikipedia
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
compulsion — An irresistible pressure to act in some way. The key philosophical and legal problem with this concept is to distinguish compulsion from pressures that are in fact not resisted but in some appropriate sense could have been. Hard determinism… … Philosophy dictionary
presumed compulsion — See legal compulsion … Ballentine's law dictionary
by compulsion will — index shall Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
draw out by compulsion — index extort Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
