It may be issued by any court, except a district or municipal court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law especially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station, or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which the party is entitled, and from which the party is unlawfully precluded by such inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person.
RCW 7.16.160
Grounds for granting writ.
Applied in 64 court decisions — leading case 127 Wash. 2d 759 - Vashon Island Committee for Self-Government v. Washington State Boundary Review Board (1995)
Most recently applied in Family of Butts v. Constantine (July 2021)
1987 c 202 s 131; 1987 c 3 s 3; 1895 c 65 s 16; RRS s 1014.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.