Strict

Rigorously regular in form; governed by the rule with the greatest exactness. Strict construction: a construction which adheres closely to the words.

In English law. Strict settlement: a settlement of an estate on a parent for life, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail, remainder to the daughters with cross-remainders, remainder

In the sense of governed by exactest rule, rigorously regular and legal in form, rigidly interpreted or enforced, is used — of the construction of language, of the performance of a covenant, of proof of marriage in trials for bigamy and criminal conversation, and of settlements of land for remote descendants. See Steictus.