Legal compulsion to be a suitor? (5,5)
I believe the answer is:
court order
'legal compulsion' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'to be a suitor?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for court order that I've seen before include "direction of Old Bailey?" , "Judge's direction" , "Instruction" , "Judicial writ" .)