legal mandates
Laws requiring compliance
Legal mandates are requirements imposed by law—rules that must be followed because statute, regulation, or court order demands it.
The term appears frequently in policy discussions: The company struggled to comply with new environmental legal mandates.
Unlike voluntary guidelines or best practices, legal mandates carry the force of law, with penalties for noncompliance.
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- statuteEnacted written rule
- actDeed or performance
- subpoenaWrit requiring testimony
cease and desist · human rights law · compulsory · labor law · statutory requirements · code · environmental regulation · due process · rule of law · civic duty · binding · executive order · injunction · law · writ · bill · rulings · decree
- declarationsdeclaration, declarations, proclamation, proclamations, announcement
- regulationsrules, rule, regulations, regulation, law
legal mandatesbest practices
Proven effective methods
suggestions · recommendations · moral suasion · advisories · gentle encouragement
legal mandatessocial customs
Accepted communal behaviors
unwritten rules · social conventions · gentlemen's agreements · self-regulation · social norms
legal mandatesliberties
Protected individual rights
rights · waivers · deregulation · legal exemptions · freedoms