Log In / Create Account
 

 
 

Encyclopedia > Prohibition (writ)

  Article Content

Prohibition (writ)

Prohibition (or writ of prohibitiion) is the name of one of the prerogative writs, the one that corresponds to mandamus, except that mandamus is a court's order requiring the person to whom it is directed to perform the specified act, and prohibition is a court's order not to.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Antonia Novello

... Michigan in 1973-1974 on a fellowship in the Department of Internal Medicine, and spent the following year on a fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetow ...