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Enjoin

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

To command; to require: as, private individuals are not only permitted, but enjoined, by law, to arrest an offender when present at the time a felony is committed or a dangerous wound given, on pain of fine and imprisonment if the wrong-doer escape through their negligence.

1 Hale, PL Cr. 587; 1 East, PI. Cr. 298; Ry. & M. 93.

To command or order a defendant in equity to do or not to do a particular tiling by writ of injunction.

See 55 Ch. Div. 418; Injunction.