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ENJOINMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enjoinment mean? 

ENJOINMENT (noun)
  The noun ENJOINMENT has 1 sense:

1. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activityplay

  Familiarity information: ENJOINMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENJOINMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment; injunction

Context example:

injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order

Hypernyms ("enjoinment" is a kind of...):

ban; prohibition; proscription (a decree that prohibits something)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enjoinment"):

mandatory injunction (injunction requiring the performance of some specific act)

final injunction; permanent injunction (injunction issued on completion of a trial)

interlocutory injunction; temporary injunction (injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over)

Derivation:

enjoin (issue an injunction)


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