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Webster 1913 Edition


Mandamus


Man-da′mus

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Noun.
[L., we command, fr.
mandare
to command.]
(Law)
A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mandamus

MANDA'MUS

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Noun.
[L. mando, to command; mandamus, we command. The primary sense is to send.]
In law, a command or writ, issuing from the king's bench in England, and in America, from some of the higher courts, directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court, requiring them to do some act therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty; as to admit or restore a person to an office or franchise, or to an academical degree, or to deliver papers, annex a seal to a paper, &c.

Definition 2024


mandamus

mandamus

English

Noun

mandamus (plural mandamuses)

  1. (law) A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.

Verb

mandamus (third-person singular simple present mandamuses, present participle mandamusing, simple past and past participle mandamused)

  1. (transitive) To serve a writ of this kind upon.

Latin

Verb

mandāmus

  1. first-person plural present active indicative of mandō