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Commander

A chief one who has supreme authority a leader the chief officer of an army or of any division of it

Mandment

Commandment

Commandeer

To compel to perform military service to seize for military purposes orig used of the Boers

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Commanding Officer

Matched in: Term Commanding Officer

Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief. The army was originally under the personal command of the sovereign, but in 1793 this command was delegated

Mandamus

Mandamus [we command). (1) A high prerogative writ of a most extensive remedial nature. In form it is a command issuing

mandamus

cease-and-desist order at order, injunction, stay NOTE: Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy and is issued usually only to command the performance of a ministerial act. It cannot be used to substitute the court's judgment for the defendant's

Peremptory mandamus

Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be...

Generalissimo

The chief commander of an army especially the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions

Precept

Any commandment instruction or order intended as an authoritative rule of action esp a command respecting moral conduct an injunction

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