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Peremptory mandamus

Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found

Reception order

Reception order. No person, not being a a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by

Decree of affirmance

Decree of affirmance, in determining the question as to whether the appellate decree passed by the High Court affirmed

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Stay order

Stay order, the stay of operation of an order only means that the order which has been stayed would not

Receiving order

Receiving order. An order of the court on the petition of a creditor, or of the debtor himself, granted for

Charging order

Charging order, an order obtained from a court or judge under the (English) Judgments Acts, 1838 and 1840 (1 &

Ground-writ

a county different from that in which the venue in the action was laid, without first issuing a writ called a ground-writ into the latter county, and then another writ, which was called a testatum writ, into

Original Writ or Original

ex debito justiti', but ex mera gratia, and were some-times denominated discretionary writs: De ventre inspiciendo; supplicavit; certiorari; prohibition; writs of error in criminal cases: ad quod domnum; scire facias, to repeal letters-patent, etc. See 1 Mad.

Perpetual injunction

indefinite in point of time; as opposed to an injunction ad interim, i.e., until the trial or further order. See INJUNCTION.

Mandatory injunction

Mandatory injunction. Such an injunction is an order requiring the defendant to do some positive act for the purpose of putting an end to the wrongful

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