comminatory

This, despite the fact that one of the priorities to which it was comminatory to address was taxation, the sinews of war in all states.

The offensive and defensive legal means within the reach of the creditor are: formal notice to the debtor, comminatory damage, comminatory fines, moratorium damages-interests, legal action and enforcement.

They scrutinized me as our paths crossed, with almost comminatory insistence.

Aside from an irate tax collector whose comminatory letters have long remained unheeded, there is, more troublingly, the mother's slow descent into mental illness, which leads to her suicide, followed by the father's disappearance.

Always ready to back his advice with deeds, "Captain Tom went sailing from island to island, appearing unexpectedly in various localities, beaming, noisy, anecdotal, commendatory or comminatory, but always welcome" (Conrad 153-154).

Under these circumstances, the exception of non-execution has a very effective comminatory character, functioning as an important means of coercion of the other party, for as long as the latter stands to benefit from the correlative performance of the other, in order to obtain it, he will be forced to proceed immediately to the execution of the performance or services for which it is liable.