About The Word Injunction
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Injunction
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What's The Definition Of Injunction?
[n] (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
[n] a formal command or admonition Synonyms | Synonyms for Injunction: cease and desist order | enjoining | enjoinment Related Terms | Find terms related to Injunction: admonition | arrest | arrestation | ban | bar | barring | behest | bench warrant | bidding | blockade | boycott | capias | caveat | charge | check | circumscription | command | commission | constraint | contraband | control | cooling | cooling down | cooling off | curb | curtailment | death warrant | debarment | debarring | deceleration | demarcation | denial | dictate | direction | directive | disallowance | Eighteenth Amendment | embargo | exception | exclusion | exhortation | fieri facias | forbiddance | forbidden fruit | forbidding | habere facias possessionem | hindrance | inadmissibility | index | index expurgatorius | index librorum prohibitorum | inhibition | instruction | interdict | interdiction | interdictum | law | legal restraint | lockout | mandamus | mandate | mandatory injunction | mittimus | monopoly | narrowing | nisi prius | nonadmission | no-no | notice | notification | omission | order | precept | preclusion | prescript | prescription | prevention | process | prohibition | Prohibition Party | prohibitory injunction | proscription | protection | protectionism | protective tariff | rationing | refusal | rein | rejection | relegation | repression | repudiation | restraint | restraint of trade | restriction | restrictive covenants | retardation | retrenchment | ruling | ruling out | search warrant | self-control | slowing down | statute | sumptuary laws | suppression | taboo | tariff wall | teaching | thought control | Volstead Act | warning | warrant | warrant of arrest | warrant of attorney | word | writ | zoning | zoning laws See Also | ban | bid | bidding | command | dictation | final injunction | interdiction | interlocutory injunction | mandatory injunction | permanent injunction | prohibition | proscription | temporary injunction Injunction In Webster's Dictionary \In*junc"tion\, n. [L. injunctio, fr. injungere,
injunctum, to join into, to enjoin. See {Enjoin}.]
1. The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or
prohibiting.
2. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a
command; a precept; a direction.
For still they knew,and ought to have still
remembered, The high injunction,not to taste that
fruit. --Milton.
Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority.
--South.
3. (Law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity,
and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of
law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from
doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
Note: It is more generally used as a preventive than as a
restorative process, although by no means confined to
the former. --Wharton. Daniell. Story.
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