compulsory law

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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

The bare possibility of extending the field of production is transformed for him into a similar compulsory law.

From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich

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 Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

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