Legal Definition and Related Resources of Enjoin
Meaning of Enjoin
To command or instruct with authority ; to abate , suspend or restrain ; to issue an injunction .
Enjoin Alternative Definition
To command; to require; as, private individuals are not only permitted, but enjoined, by law, to arrest an offender when present at the time a felony is committed, or a dangerous wound given, on pain of fine and imprisonment if the wrongdoer escape through their negligence. 1 Hale, P. C. 587; 1 East, P. C. 298, 304; Hawk. P. Ci bk. 2, c. 12, § 13; Ryan & M. 93. To command or order a defendant in equity to do or not to do a particular thing by writ of injunction. See “Injunction.”
Enjoin Legal Definition
To order a person to perform, or to abstain and desist from performing a specified act or course of conduct. See injunction.
Synonyms of Enjoin
verb
- abate
- ban
- bar
- barricade
- bid
- block
- blockade
- bring to a standstill
- cause to halt
- charge
- command
- constrain
- curb
- decree
- dictate
- direct
- disallow
- disapprove
- discountenance
- embargo
- exact
- exhort
- foil
- forbid
- forbid by law
- forestall
- frustrate
- give orders
- hamper
- hinder
- hold in check
- impede
- impose
- impose a ban
- impose a duty
- impose a task
- impose with authority
- inhibit
- insist on
- instruct
- interdict
- issue an order
- keep from happening
- keep in bounds
- lay under embargo
- limit
- make unlawful
- not countenance
- not permit
- oblige
- order
- place under interdiction
- place under the ban
- positively direct
- preclude
- prevent
- prohibit
- prohibit by legal injunction
- prompt
- proscribe
- put a stop to
- put an end to
- put under an injunction
- put under an interdiction
- put under embargo
- put under the ban
- quash
- quell
- repress
- require
- restrain by injunction
- restrict
- retard
- rule
- stem
- stop
- suppress
- thwart Associated Concepts: permanent injunction
- preliminary injunction
- temporary injunction
- stem
- stop
- suppress
- thwart Associated Concepts: permanent injunction
- preliminary injunction
- temporary injunction
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- Injunction
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