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injunction
Word definitions for injunction in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES take out a policy/injunction/loan etc ▪ Before taking a loan out, calculate your monthly outgoings. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE interim ▪ This made the granting of an interim injunction much easier to obtain. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ).
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.