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injunction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Injunction \In*junc"tion\, n. [L. injunctio, fr. injungere, injunctum, to join into, to enjoin. See Enjoin.]
The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
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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.
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(Law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Late Latin injunctionem (nominative injunctio) "a command," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin injungere "impose," literally "attach to" (see enjoin).
Wiktionary
n. 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. 3 (context legal English) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some 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.
WordNet
n. a formal command or admonition
(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order" [syn: enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order]
Wikipedia
An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts. A party that fails to comply with an injunction faces criminal or civil penalties, including possible monetary sanctions and even imprisonment. They can also be charged with contempt of court. Counterinjunctions are injunctions that stop or reverse the enforcement of another injunction.
Usage examples of "injunction".
This case came to the Supreme Court on appeal from a decree of the circuit court of appeals dissolving an injunction restraining certain registration officials from excluding the appellant from the voting list.
The Court sustained the injunction against the objection that it violated freedom of the press, holding that appellant was guilty of attempting to monopolize interstate commerce.
Canadian court is going to grant you an injunction against the damming up of a useless bit of territory like this.
The injunction against exhibitors distributors Kiester and all of them from showing it till this mess is.
They were indignant enough then, and the husband said that if she had really quartered herself on me in that fashion, all I had to do was to get an injunction from the courts forbidding her to put her foot within my doors.
Court also held that the alternative remedy of injunction expressly provided by State law did not afford an adequate opportunity for testing judicially a confiscatory rate order.
After sharing in her bereavement and arranging for her welfare, the General stopped over in the village to visit the Otakes and to bring Nicholai a present of two boxes of books selected from confiscated libraries, and given with the injunction that the boy must not allow his gift of languages to atrophy.
The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers as the Dantean injunction to renounce all hope.
I did not tell her of the rabbinical injunction exempting deaf boys from the ceremony.
Court, on the application of the complaining State, acting as representative of the interests of its citizens, granted an injunction requiring that a bridge, erected over the Ohio under a charter from the State of Virginia, either be altered so as to admit of free navigation of the river, or else be entirely abated.
I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation if I can get out an injunction.
This exception is notably applicable to cases where the federal court has taken possession of property which it may protect by injunction from interference by State courts.
United States to stay proceedings in State courts except where such injunctions may be authorized by any law relating to bankruptcy proceedings.
People at Raynham were put on their guard by the baronet, and his reputation for wisdom was severely criticized in consequence of the injunctions he thought fit to issue through butler and housekeeper down to the lower household, for the preservation of his son from any visible symptom of the passion.
Like anyone else in the circumstances Brat disobeyed the injunction automatically.