legal constraint

  • 1legal constraint — index commitment (confinement) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 2legal 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

  • 3constraint — 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,… …

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  • 4constraint by force — index bondage, coercion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 5constraint to obedience — index compulsion (coercion) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6legal restraint — index constraint (imprisonment), detention, deterrence, deterrent, durance, embargo, estoppel …

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  • 7constraint — 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… …

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  • 8constraint — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ important, major ▪ severe, tight ▪ The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year. ▪ budget, budgetary …

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  • 9LEGAL 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

  • 10constraint — 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