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Enjoinment

noun
1.
(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity.  Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction.






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"Enjoinment" Quotes from Famous Books



... younger she cared not to change), and explained to him, with the utmost diligence, why she had changed his name, showing him in what peril he might be, an he were known. This she set out to him not once, but many and many a time, and the boy, who was quick of wit, punctually obeyed the enjoinment of ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... or of the way in which the parts act upon one another; and yet, the mother who leaves her daughter in ignorance, and then does not carefully guard her herself, is guilty of worse than this; and when the evil is done, the advice of the wisest physician can only be the enjoinment of the very sanitary rules which she herself should have long before enforced; for "the true method of Sexual Education must remain that which has been always hitherto spoken of, that of ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett



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