Although there was no legal compulsion, the moral obligation to pay was strong.

Despite legal compulsions he has kept himself busy in finding a peaceful solution for the Kashmir issue.

In his later years, his Rousseauian faith in humanity declined, and he emphasized the necessity of legal compulsion.

But your employer is operating out of personal generosity - and a desire to keep employees happy and on the job - rather than legal compulsion.

He was under no legal or political compulsion to go all-out.

Including the teaching of marriage in funding agreements puts a legal compulsion on headteachers to comply.

So, as you say, what we have is widespread prior restraint on speech, without legal compulsion to do so.

Non-privileged confidential information on the other hand must be disclosed to judicial, statutory, or other legal compulsion.

Black's Law Dictionary defines disgorgement as "the act of giving up something (such as profits illegally obtained) on demand or by legal compulsion".

CNN was under no legal compulsion to carry AT&T's ad.