Alternative
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Allowing a choice between two or more things or acts to be done. In contracts, a party has often the choice which of several things to perform. A writ is in the alternative which commands the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason wherefore he has not done it.
Finch, 257; 3 Bl. Comm. 273.
The first mandamus is an alternative writ.
3 Bl. Comm. 111.
See "Nisi."
See Nisi.