injunctive








noun

  1. Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
  2. an act or instance of enjoining.
  3. a command; order; admonition: the injunctions of the Lord.

noun

  1. law an instruction or order issued by a court to a party to an action, esp to refrain from some act, such as causing a nuisance
  2. a command, admonition, etc
  3. the act of enjoining

1620s, from Latin injunct-, past participle stem of injungere (see enjoin) + -ive. As a term in grammar, from 1910.

n.

early 15c., from Late Latin injunctionem (nominative injunctio) “a command,” noun of action from past participle stem of Latin injungere “impose,” literally “attach to” (see enjoin).

A court order that either compels or restrains an act by an individual, organization, or government official. In labor–management relations, injunctions have been used to prevent workers from going on strike.

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