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Definitions of mandamus in various dictionaries:
noun - an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
A writ issued by a superior court ordering a public official or body or a lower court to perform a specified duty.
verb - to command by means of writ issued by a superior court
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| Apr 22 2013 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Jun 30 2010 The Times - Cryptic |
| Sep 22 2009 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Dec 11 2008 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Aug 29 2002 New York Times |
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| The name of this writ ordering a specific action is Latin for "we command" |
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| a judicial writ issued as a command to an inferior court or ordering a person to perform a public or statutory duty. |
| an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion used only when all other judicial remedies fail |
| an official order from a court of law stating that a person or organization must do a particular thing: |
| A judicial writ issued as a command to an inferior court or ordering a person to perform a public or statutory duty. |
| A writ issued by a superior court ordering a public official or body or a lower court to perform a specified duty. |
| To serve or compel with such a writ. |
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Mandamus (; Latin "we command") is a judicial remedy in the form of an order from a superior court, to any government, subordinate court, corporation, or public authority, to do (or forbear from doing) some specific act which that body is obliged under law to do (or refrain from doing), and which is in the nature of public duty, and in certain cases one of a statutory duty. It cannot be issued to compel an authority to do something against statutory provision. For example, it cannot be used to force a lower court to reject or authorize applications that have been made, but if the court refuses to rule one way or the other then a mandamus can be used to order the court to rule on the applications. * Mandamus may be a command to do an administrative action or not to take a particular action, and it is supplemented by legal rights. In the American legal system it must be a judicially enforceable and legally protected right before one suffering a grievance can ask for a mandamus. A person ca |