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writs including the writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo-warranto and certiorary for the enforcement of any of

emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our law commits

judges was equally divided in discharging a rule for a mandamus to hear objections, on the ground of heterodoxy, to the

right or title to be in that person by whose command he acted. If the person who ordered the distress was

multi-party system in which no single party is able to command support of a working majority, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph

[fr. mandatarius, Lat.], he to whom a mandate, charge, or commandment is given; also he that obtains a benefice by mandamus.

to exercise public power, to require obedience to their lawful commands, and to command or act in the public name, Black's

on proper cause shown. They are the writs of procedendo, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and certiorari. Prerogative writs are

Mandate [fr. mandatum, Lat.], a judicial command, charge, commission. Also, a bailment of goods, without reward, to

Edn., p. 127. Means a right; an official or judicial command; also a legal power to do an act given by