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Peremptory mandamus

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writ

to perform a mandated act or else to show cause why the act need not be performed compare peremptory writ in this entry extraordinary writ : a writ granted as an extraordinary remedy at the discretion of … longer governs civil pleading and has lost many of its applications, the extraordinary writs esp. of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, and certiorari indicate its historical importance as an instrument of judicial authority. alias writ : a writ

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order

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

Writ

in actions see EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For writs not in actions, see CERTIORARI, MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, and QUO WARRANTO. A court's written order, in the name of a state or other competent legal

Court

or authority, including any government, orders, directions or writs including the writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo-warranto and certiorary for the enforcement of any of the fundamental right or for any other purpose,

injunction

do or refrain from doing a specified act compare cease-and-desist order at order, damage declaratory judgment at judgment, mandamus specific performance at performance, stay NOTE: An injunction is available as a remedy for harm for which there

Court-leet

and county court, Steph. Com., Book VI., Ch. xiv. The lord was compellable to hold a court by mandamus, and a leet was forfeited by non user and by acts of abuser. By the (English) Law of

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