Definition (English):injunction (in-j3ngk-sh.m), n. (16c) A court order commanding or preventing an action. - To get an injunction, the complainant must show that there is no plain, adequate, and complete remedy at law and that an irreparable injury will result unless the relief is granted. - Also termed writ ofinjunction. See IRREPARABLE- INJURY RULE. [Cases: Injunction C;:::" 1.1 "In a general sense, every order of a court which commands or forbids is an injunction; but in its accepted legal sense, an injunction is ajudicial process or mandate operating in personam by which, upon certain established principles of equity, a party is required to do or refrain from doing a particular thing. An injunction has also been defined as a writ framed according to the circumstances of the case, commanding an act which the court regards as essential to justice, or restraining an act which it esteems contrary to equity and good conscience; as a remedial writ which courts issue for the purpose of enforcing their equity jurisdiction; and as a writ issuing by the order and under the seal of a court of equity." 1 Howard C. Joyce. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Injunctions § 1, at 2-3 (1909).
Definition (Spanish):(mandamiento) 1. Pen. Acto de comunicación por el que el órgano judicial ordena la práctica de algún acto o diligencia a sujetos determinados. "Para ordenar el libramiento de certificación o testimonio y la práctica de cualquier diligencia judicial, cuya ejecución corresponda a registradores de la propiedad, notarios, auxiliares o subalternos de juzgados o tribunales y funcionarios de policía judicial que estén a las órdenes de los mismos, se empleará la forma de mandamiento" (LECrim, art. 186) 2. Proc. Forma que adopta la petición de un órgano judicial a otro de grado inferior para que ejecute una diligencia judicial. (orden) 1. Gral. Forma que revisten algunas decisiones administrativas, como las dictadas por un ministro o un consejero autonomico. 2. Gral. Relación de asuntos. 3. Gral. Mandato dictado por una autoridad judicial o administrativa. 4. Preferencia, preeminencia, jerarquía. (Acepciones 5 y 6 tienen que ver con usos militares y bursátiles).
Comments:See 'writ'.