The phrase "a mandatory term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a term or condition that is required or obligatory in a specific context, such as legal documents or contracts.
Example: "In the contract, 'payment due within 30 days' is a mandatory term that must be adhered to by both parties."
Alternatives: "a required term" or "an obligatory term".
Mr. Taylor faces a mandatory term of life in prison.
Threatening people with knives will carry a mandatory term.
Dr. Cohen faces a mandatory term of one and a half to four and a half years on each burglary count.
The sergeant, known in the proceedings as Marine A, was told by the judge after being found guilty that he faced a mandatory term of life imprisonment.
In the filing, prosecutors asked the judge, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of Federal District Court, to impose a mandatory term of life imprisonment on Mr. Shahzad, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday.
Council leaders acknowledge that the change to a mandatory term of 15 years was requested by telecommunications companies and their lobbyists, who maintained that it would allow the companies more time to recoup their investments, help them get financing from banks, and ensure more competition to get the franchises that will ultimately benefit the city as a whole.
He was also charged with distributing images, a count that had no mandatory term but in a case like this could bring about five years, said his federal public defenders, Jennifer Brown and Deirdre D. von Dornum.
Harsher penalties for those convicted under the amended law include the removal of a fine of up to 5,000 ringgit ($1,371) and a possible jail term of three years, to be replaced by a mandatory jail term of between three and seven years, said deputy home affairs minister Wan Junaidi Tuaku Jaafar.
Which leaves him with 11, a personal record, and all thanks to mandatory term limits, another regulation he's less than wild about: "We already have an antidote to incumbents.
Neither conviction carried a mandatory prison term.
It carries a mandatory minimum term of 10 years.
