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enforcement

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enforcement noun administration, carrying into effect, carrying out, coaction, compulsion, compulsory execuuion, constraint, dictation, effectuation, exaction, execution, force, forcible urging, implementation, imposition, insistence upon, necessitation, necessity, obligation, obligement, pressure, requirement, strengthening, support
Associated concepts: enforcement of a contract, enforceeent of a judgment, enforcement of a lien, enforcement of a right, enforcement proceeding
Foreign phrases: Pacta conventa quae neque contra leges neque dolo malo inita sunt omni modo observanda sunt.Agreements which are not contrary to the laws nor entered into with a fraudulent design must be observed in all reepects. Executio juris non habet injuriam. The execution of law does no injury. Scire leges non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem. To know the laws is not to observe their words alone, but their force and power. Interest reipublicae ne maleficia remaneant impunita. It concerns the state that crimes do not go unpunished. Ex nudo pacto non oritur nascitur actio. No action arises on a contract without a consideration. Nemo jus sibi dicere potest. No one can declare the law for himself.
See also: act, action, coercion, commission, compulsion, discharge, duress, force, performance, requirement


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