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injunction

UK/ɪnˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/US/ɪnˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,427 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: injunctions

An injunction is a court order stopping somebody doing something. Seek an injunction, breach the injunction, an interim injunction.

Breaking one is contempt of court and can mean prison, which is what gives it force. A super-injunction forbids reporting even that the injunction exists, and the argument about those is about open justice. The Latin means a command.

Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers) · Public domain

Definitions of injunction

  1. 1nouninjunctionA court order stopping somebody doing something.C1

    “The singer won an injunction preventing the newspaper from printing the photos.”

injunction is a court order.

Where it comes from

Latin iniunctio comes from iniungere, to impose or enjoin — in plus iungere, to join. Enjoin is the same verb.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *yewg-

  2. Latin

    iniūnctiō — command, injunction

  3. Old French

    injonctïon

  4. Middle English

    iniunccyon

  5. English, today

    injunction

From Middle English iniunccyon, iniunccion, from Old French injonctïon, from Latin iniūnctiō (“command, injunction”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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injunction in the wild

  • The proceedings remain sealed until the Senate votes to remove the injunction of secrecy.

    Closed sessions of the United States Senate

  • North Carolina, which stood to lose a Representative under such an injunction, intervened in the case, disputing Utah's standing to sue.

    Utah v. Evans

  • The Utah federal district court refused to grant the State's injunction ruling in favor of the Census Bureau.

    Utah v. Evans

  • Instead, a federal court must still weigh what the Court described as the four-factor test traditionally used to determine if an injunction should be issued.

    EBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C.

  • The gang is under a civil injunction enforced by the LAPD which restricts gang members' activity within a defined boundary surrounding the projects.

    Culver City Boys

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.