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prohibitory injunction

prohibitory injunction see injunction ...

preliminary injunction

preliminary injunction see injunction ...

interlocutory injunction

interlocutory injunction see injunction ...

final injunction

final injunction see injunction ...

affirmative injunction

affirmative injunction see injunction ...

Temporary restraining order, means a court order preserving the status-quo until a litigant's applica-tion for a preliminary or permanent injunction can be heard, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1477...

order

order 1 : a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority [maintain law and ] 2 : an established mode or state of procedure [a call to ] 3 a : a mandate from a superior authority see also executive order b : a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority ;specif : one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement [an administrative may not be inconsistent with the Constitution "Wells v. State, 654 So. 2d 145 (1995)"] c : an authoritative command issued by the court [violated a court and was jailed for contempt] cease-and-de·sist order [sēs-ənd-di-zist-, -sist-] : an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) compare injunction, mandamus, stay consent order : an agreement of litigating parties that by consent takes the form of a court order final order : an order of a court...

stay

stay stayed stay·ing : to temporarily suspend or prevent by judicial or executive order [may not grant an injunction to proceedings in a state court "U.S. Code"] n : a temporary suspension or injunction of an action or process by a usually discretionary judicial or executive order [a of execution of the judgment] [ of a lower court's judgment pending certiorari "W. J. Brennan, Jr."] see also automatic stay compare cease-and-desist order at order, mandamus, supersedeas ...

Staying proceedings

Staying proceedings. By the Judicature Act, 1875, s. 24 (5), the courts had power to stay proceedings in cases where an injunction or prohibition could formerly have been obtained, but in which such course, by the consolidation of the superior courts, is now put an end to. Every Court has an un-doubted inherent jurisdiction to stay proceedings on the ground that they are an abuse of the process of the court; see per Vaughan Williams, L.J., in Re Norton's Settlement, (1908) 1 Ch 479, approving Egbert v. Short, (1907) 2 Ch 205. As to staying pro-ceedings upon an appeal, see R.S.C. Ord. LVIII., r. 16, and for other cases illustrating this jurisdiction, see Annual Practice. See also the Vexatious Actions Act, 1896, and R.S.C. Ord. XXV., r. 4....

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