 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
injunction
noun
1: a formal command or admonition
2: (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party
from doing or continuing to do a certain activity;
"injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a
judicial order" [syn: {enjoining}, {enjoinment}, {cease
and desist order}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Injunction \In*junc"tion\, noun [L. injunctio, fr. injungere,
injunctum, to join into, to enjoin. See {Enjoin}.]
1. The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or
prohibiting.
2. That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a
command; a precept; a direction.
For still they knew, and ought to have still
remembered,
The high injunction, not to taste that fruit.
--Milton.
Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority.
--South.
3. (Law) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity,
and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law,
whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing
certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
Note: It is more generally used as a preventive than as a
restorative process, although by no means confined to
the former. --Wharton. --Daniell. --Story.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "injunction":
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, admonition,
arrest, arrestation, ban, bar, barring, behest, bench warrant,
bidding, blockade, boycott, capias, caveat, charge, check,
circumscription, command, commission, constraint, contraband,
control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment,
death warrant, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation,
denial, dictate, direction, directive, disallowance, embargo,
exception, exclusion, exhortation, fieri facias, forbiddance,
forbidden fruit, forbidding, habere facias possessionem, hindrance,
inadmissibility, index, index expurgatorius,
index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, instruction, interdict,
interdiction, interdictum, law, legal restraint, lockout, mandamus,
mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus, monopoly, narrowing,
nisi prius, no-no, nonadmission, notice, notification, omission,
order, precept, preclusion, prescript, prescription, prevention,
process, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription,
protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, refusal,
rein, rejection, relegation, repression, repudiation, restraint,
restraint of trade, restriction, restrictive covenants,
retardation, retrenchment, ruling, ruling out, search warrant,
self-control, slowing down, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression,
taboo, tariff wall, teaching, thought control, warning, warrant,
warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, word, writ, zoning,
zoning laws
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