compulsory law

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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 Chambers, Robert

There were, it is true, chiefs whose office was in a manner hereditary; but their authority was wholly of a moral nature, and enforced by no compulsory law.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

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 Stump, Joseph

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

So much in advance of English ideas as to what was fitting and proper was this compulsory law that it was vetoed by William and Mary, when submitted to their majesties for approval.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson