Verb (used with object) : His disregard of the rules compels us to dismiss him. From Dictionary.com.
Any "competent and compellable person" can be called, with Ginwala's approval, to give evidence. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Winter said it appeared to him that Smith was "both competent and compellable", and said the psychologist could be called to testify. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The act provided that “no person shall be compellable to work above Eight Days in the year, nor at any time in seed-time, Hay or Corn-Harvest.”. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
He said the commission was "dealing with a non-compellable witness" who could shed light on the principal party in the weapons deals and he urged the commission not to put openness above establishing the facts. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It has also been said, that this is not like a case where a burdensome office is thrown upon a man, without his consent, wherein he is compellable to act; for that here the defendant has chosen to become a member of a corporation by which he had put himself in a situation to become a returning officer, and therefore that he is. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting] Reference
Liberty was given to the king's liege subjects to transport themselves and families to settle the province, only they were to remain immediately subject to the crown of England, and to depend thereon for ever; and were not compellable to answer to any cause or suit in any other part of his majesty's dominions but in England and Wales. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Equally, he is not compellable to be a witness against himself. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Express Newspaper Online] Reference
A plaintiff residhig abroad is not compellable to give security for costs in an action in this Court. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of exchequer, from Easter term 32 George III. to [Trinity term 37 George III.] ... both inclusive. [1792-1797]] Reference
Afterward they were compellable to perform any military service, under the penalty of losing their privileges as citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes] Reference
In general, the husband or wife of any party to a civil action is competent and compellable to give evidence, as any other witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Legal Status of Women in the United States of America. January 1, 1938. Report for North Carolina. An Advance Printing of Individual State Material, Constituting Part of a Compilation Now Being Prepared to Show the Present Legal Status of Women in the United States of America.] Reference
"Everybody", said Mr. Justice Patteson, who tried the case, "except counsel and attorneys, is compellable to reveal what they may have heard.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Tbe impropriator of a parish has no right to nominate a preacher to every chapel within the parish, much less is he compellable lo to do. ibid. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference
Husbands and wives are competent and compellable to give evidence for or against each other, except in the particular cases specified in the statute. From Wordnik.com. [The Legal Status of Women in the United States of America. January 1, 1938. Report for North Carolina. An Advance Printing of Individual State Material, Constituting Part of a Compilation Now Being Prepared to Show the Present Legal Status of Women in the United States of America.] Reference
The importance still attached to the harvest season is shown by the section that all artificers and others were compellable to work in harvest or be put in the stocks two days and a night. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of English Agriculture] Reference
These might, indeed, supply their posts with some other able-bodied men; but if no such could have been found, the obligation nevertheless remained, and they were compellable to serve in their own proper persons. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1] Reference
Ca 90.a. It should also be remarked, that though at the common law executors in general were oot compellable to account, yet if they consented to settle an account, they were liable to an action of debt for the balance. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...] Reference
In cases of divorce the wife and husband are not competent to testify, but in proceedings by the wife, on account of adultery coupled with cruelty, the husband and wife are competent and compellable to give evidence of or relating to such cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
In 1859, when I took the medal, the die for it had not been cast, and the trustees or managers of the fund were advised that they were legally compellable to melt up ten gold eagles, or, at least, a hundred dollars 'worth of gold, in the general form of a medal, and to have engraved upon. From Wordnik.com. [Four years under Marse Robert,] Reference
However Winter told Smith's lawyer, Andre Roux: "Your client appears to be compellable and well as competent. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
17 As a depositary is not answerable for the safe keeping of the thing deposited, but only for fraud, and, if it is stolen, is not compellable to make restitution by action of deposit, he has no interest if it is lost, and therefore the action of theft is maintainable only by the depositor. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
We also seek interest on unpaid damages, which is compellable only from the date that legal proceedings are issued, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [Wimmera Mail Times] Reference
38 examination of, in a court of equity, its effect, 11. 643 not compellable to answer a mere bill of discovery, III. From Wordnik.com. [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference
26. if an apprentice with whom lels than ten pounds hath been given, runs away from his mafter, he is ■ compellable to ferve out his time of abfence, or | make (atisfaftion for the fame, at any time withid j. From Wordnik.com. [A Law Grammar; Or, An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of English Jurisprudence.] Reference
Gqozo a "non-compellable" witness. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Railroads, grade crossing elimination, compellable services, etc., rates, safety; regulatory powers of States as to, 134-137, 220-225. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
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