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But then the employer will see his own interest, free contract will produce the desired result, there will be no need of compulsory law.

From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith

In the grand duchy the forest has almost entirely disappeared, but owing to the compulsory law of replanting in Belgium this fate does not seem likely to attend the Belgian Ardennes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

Hence, you are by no means to adopt any compulsory law in this case, as the Pope has done.

From An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism by Joseph Stump

A compulsory law of equal division of lands among the children of a deceased proprietor, may be long in revealing its horrors in a country where the redundant population sheds habitually off.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers

But many are denied that privilege, and cannot afford to spare their children's wages for even the three months covering the compulsory law of education.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick


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