Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

compellativus

. [fr. Latin compellare "to accuse"] Hist. An adversary or accuser.compelling-state-interest test. Constitutiosnal law. A method for determining the constitutional validity of a law, whereby the government's interest in the law is balanced against the individual's constitutional right to be free of the law, and only if the government's interest is strong enough will the law be upheld. ( The compelling-state-interest test is used most commonly in equal-protection analysis when the disputed law requires strict scrutiny. See STRICT SCRUTINY.