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Command

To order with authority to lay injunction upon to direct to bid to charge

Commandeer

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

Commander

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

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Commandment

Commander-in-Chief

Commander-in-Chief. The army was originally under the personal command of the sovereign, but in 1793 this command was delegated to a Commander-in-Chief appointed by patent. The command was divided in the middle of the nineteenth century...

Commanding Officer

Commanding Officer, used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means the officer for the time being in command of the unit or detachment to which such person belongs or is attached. [Air Force...

Mandamus

Mandamus [we command). (1) A high prerogative writ of a most extensive remedial nature. In form it is a command issuing in the King's name from the King's Bench Division of the High Court only, and...

mandamus

mandamus [Latin, we enjoin, from mandare to enjoin] : an extraordinary writ issued by a court of competent jurisdiction to an inferior tribunal, a public official, an administrative agency, a corporation, or any person compelling the...

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...

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