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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
injunction
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.
▪ Review the use by employers of interim injunctions to stop disputes.
▪ Even though the matter involved an interim injunction, the judgment of Lord Ross was a full one.
▪ They obtained an interim injunction directed against the union, which then agreed to comply.
interlocutory
▪ Nevertheless, the court granted the plaintiff an interlocutory injunction even though the plaintiff had previously engaged in comparative advertising.
▪ The Lords had initially upheld the interlocutory injunctions although the House subsequently refused to make the injunctions permanent.
▪ The Court of Appeal held that this was sufficient to entitle the plaintiffs to an interlocutory injunction.
▪ An interlocutory injunction could not stand on its own.
▪ Turning to the balance of convenience, he was in no doubt that the balance lay in favour of granting an interlocutory injunction.
▪ An interlocutory injunction, preventing further infringement, may be available before that date.
permanent
▪ Y., consented to permanent injunctions barring them from violating securities laws.
preliminary
▪ They obtained a preliminary injunction against the company and court-ordered restitution.
▪ Judge Walker set Nov. 14 as the date for hearing arguments on a preliminary injunction covering the same subject matter.
▪ The civil liberties group is seeking a preliminary injunction barring Republican Gov.
▪ A judge this week granted Nogales-Talley a preliminary injunction, prohibiting the district from demoting her to classroom teacher.
▪ Yesterday he issued a preliminary injunction, confirming that figure.
▪ The resulting restraining order is in effect until May 10, when a hearing on a preliminary injunction is scheduled.
■ NOUN
court
▪ The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
▪ Harold Dutton, D-Houston, said the options to prevent Ashworth from discontinuing the program include getting a court injunction.
▪ What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
▪ Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
▪ He can bring proceedings for a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement.
▪ Mr Venables is pleading for a continuation of a court injunction preventing his removal from White Hart Lane by the board.
▪ Mr Doherty was suspended and court injunctions taken to freeze both his assets and those of the computer company.
mareva
▪ Having launched the action, he sought a Mareva injunction restraining the appellants from dealing with the property.
■ VERB
apply
▪ Secondly, it can apply for an injunction.
grant
▪ Alternatively, they are matters together with those specifically mentioned below which would influence me against granting an injunction.
▪ A judge this week granted Nogales-Talley a preliminary injunction, prohibiting the district from demoting her to classroom teacher.
▪ Sargant, J. granted the injunction, even though in doing so it would involve considerable hardship on the part of the Council.
▪ Courts may grant injunctions to stop defamatory publications which would prejudice pending criminal trials.
▪ In this respect the situation is very similar to that which obtains when a court grants an exparte injunction.
▪ Judge Beach disagreed and refused to grant an injunction.
▪ Turning to the balance of convenience, he was in no doubt that the balance lay in favour of granting an interlocutory injunction.
issue
▪ If he issues the injunction and Mr Farquharson ignores it, he could be jailed for up to two years for contempt.
▪ School officials can ask the courts to issue an injunction to prohibit the strike.
▪ Almost every week, at secret hearings in the High Court, judges are asked to issue injunctions against the media.
▪ The federal courts would issue injunctions, impose contempt, etc., but the miners kept walking out.
▪ Two weeks ago, a judge issued an injunction against the pilots union, urging pilots to resume their previous overtime habits.
▪ They issued an injunction a day.
▪ Yesterday he issued a preliminary injunction, confirming that figure.
▪ The courts issued an injunction giving temporary control and possession of the structure to the companies.
obtain
▪ They obtained a preliminary injunction against the company and court-ordered restitution.
▪ They obtained an interim injunction directed against the union, which then agreed to comply.
▪ Two days later, Cyber Promotions obtained an injunction from a federal judge that allowed the mailings to continue.
▪ Read in studio Two councils have obtained high court injunctions in an attempt to stop an illegal rave party going ahead.
▪ Lungren also obtained an injunction in August that closed the club indefinitely.
prevent
▪ It also seeks injunctions aimed at preventing such use.
▪ The remedy sought will in any case often be an injunction to prevent any repetition of the trespass.
▪ Jaguar had taken out an injunction last week to prevent McLaren from employing Newey when his contract expires in 2002.
▪ This was coupled with an injunction preventing the removal of any of the contents.
▪ Mr Venables is pleading for a continuation of a court injunction preventing his removal from White Hart Lane by the board.
▪ The council sought an injunction to prevent a clergyman trespassing by holding services on the plaintiff's seashore.
refuse
▪ The Court of Appeal reversed the judge's decision to refuse the injunctions sought.
restrain
▪ An injunction to restrain them from persuading their members not to play there was refused.
▪ Another difficulty in the Gouriet case was that the applicant sought an injunction to restrain a threatened breach of the criminal law.
▪ Harman J decided that the injunction restraining a breach of confidence should expire at the same time as a restrictive covenant.
▪ Having launched the action, he sought a Mareva injunction restraining the appellants from dealing with the property.
▪ The plaintiff's sought an injunction to restrain R Co's directors from recommending the offer.
▪ It wanted the return of those papers and an injunction restraining the use of the information obtained from them.
seek
▪ Where a government body seeks an injunction against a private individual or corporation, the position may be different.
▪ The protesters have also filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages and an injunction against certain uses of pepper spray.
▪ Compaq is seeking an injunction to force Dell to tone down the ads.
▪ The civil liberties group is seeking a preliminary injunction barring Republican Gov.
▪ It also seeks injunctions aimed at preventing such use.
▪ Agency staffers want the Commission to seek a Federal court injunction barring Microsoft from what they consider abusive practices.
▪ Keating wondered if the Justice Department could seek an injunction against those harassing the marchers.
stop
▪ An injunction was later issued stopping her taking the children out of the state.
▪ Each company seeks unspecified damages and injunctions that would stop the other from using its patents.
▪ The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop.
▪ What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
▪ Courts may grant injunctions to stop defamatory publications which would prejudice pending criminal trials.
▪ In the end, the Attorney-General commenced proceedings in June 1975 for an injunction to stop publication.
▪ He can bring proceedings for a High Court injunction to stop the publication of a misleading advertisement.
▪ Under the legal framework employers would also be prevented from winning interim injunctions to stop disruption backed by lawful ballots.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A court injunction forbade Clive Heywood to enter his wife's house.
▪ The environmental group is seeking an injunction to stop the sale of public land.
▪ The government is taking out an injunction against the newspaper to try to stop it publishing a secret report.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Injunction

Injunction \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, 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
injunction

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
injunction

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.

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WordNet
injunction

  1. n. a formal command or admonition

  2. (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]

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Wikipedia
Injunction

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.

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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.