Sentence examples for compel the payment from inspiring English sources

In an amended complaint filed yesterday seeking to compel the payment of the insurance benefits, Chase argued that the insurers fully understood the nature of the transactions.

DRIVERS' LICENSE suspensions have become a debt-collection tool in many states, often to compel the payment of court-imposed fines and fees.

The barn was, within less than three months after the issuing of the policy, entirely consumed by fire, and an action was brought upon the contract to compel the payment of the entire sum of $800.

The court said states could no longer compel the payment of union fees by workers who don't want to join, even if they benefit from the union's activities, such as contract negotiations.

"Ferguson has allowed its focus on revenue generation to fundamentally compromise the role of Ferguson's municipal court," the report said: Instead, the court primarily uses its judicial authority as the means to compel the payment of fines and fees that advance the City's financial interests.

Its object is to compel the payment of the several classes of debts named, and was so regarded by the supreme court of the state.' Indeed, the limit in amount ($50), found in that statute, made it clear that no police regulation was intended; for, if it were, the more stock found on the track the greater would be the danger and the more imperative the need of regulation and penalty.

Compelling the payment of debts is not a police regulation.

'Under the act the present defendant may issue weekly orders for coal, as formerly, and may pay them in that commodity when desired by the holder, but instead of being able, as formerly, to compel the holder to accept payment of such orders in coal, the holder may, under the act, compel defendant to pay them in money.

Until he has had a full opportunity to exercise this discretion, neither he nor the Secretary can be compelled by mandamus to make the payment, and if in its exercise, he does not act capriciously, arbitrarily or beyond the scope of his authority, the writ will not issue at all.

In court, Crossroads argued that it was compelled to stop the payments to the two consultants, George C. Finley and Peter Kelly, both prominent Democrats with ties to leading state officials, because the Ethics Commission had ruled that paying them would be illegal.

Upon such refusal, the yards company, in order to compel payment by the carriers, adopted the practice of withholding the sum demanded from the freight charges collected for them.