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Definition of Imposes
1. impose [v] - See also: impose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imposes
Literary usage of Imposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... the court should lean against that construction which imposes upon the assured
the obligations of a warranty. The company cannot justly complain of such ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"useless, would have been wrong, for the fact is fad. of a one-foot pile a pressure
of about 's plan, although it only imposes on lali a ton, does send such ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"first obliges every Catholic to accept it sub mortali; he next takes off this
obligation ; he finally re-imposes it. Take, finally, the Vatican definition. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The statutes of the »state eeen, simply imposes a double liability upon provide
the only means of there enforcing that liability. ..."
5. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"First compatible with what is positively prescribed, the latter claims™^ in cases
a preference : for the mere permission imposes no obligation of ..."
6. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"... imposes a restraint upon the force which positive law has at its command, and
sets limits to the validity of positive laws themselves. ..."