A short definition of Mandamus: Latin for “we command”. A writ issued by a superior court ordering an inferior court, corporation, or individual, to do or refrain from doing specific acts. The main importance to real estate is that it is a writ commanding a governmental body to do something, such as issue a building permit.<\/p>\n
A short definition of Mandamus: Latin for “we command”. A writ issued by a superior court ordering an inferior court, corporation, or individual, to do or refrain from doing specific acts. The main importance to real estate is that it is a writ commanding a governmental body to do something, such as issue a building permit.<\/p>\n
Description\/ translation of mandamus into Spanish: mandamiento (orden de un órgano jurisdiccional a una autoridad u órgano jurisdiccional inferior)[1] <\/p>\n
Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where mandamus belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Traditional meaning of mandamus in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (We command.) A writ, formerly prerogative (see this last concept in this legal reference); issuing out of a superior court to an inferior court, a public or private corporation, or an officer, directing them to perform some public, ministerial, or official duty, or to restore the complainant to his rights, and privileges; see Robinson’s Elementary Law Rev. ed.; § 265. If peremptory, it directed the defendant to perform its orders absolutely; if alternative, to do so, or show cause to the contrary; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England<\/a> 110, 264; 4 id. 441. <\/p>\n Mandamus<\/p>\n Mandamus <\/p>\n Mandamus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Concept of Mandamus in the context of Real Property A short definition of Mandamus: Latin for “we command”. A writ issued by a superior court ordering an inferior court, corporation, or individual, to do or refrain from doing specific acts. The main importance to real estate is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,148,153,155,35],"tags":[1045,1046,802,160,419,36,205,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Notes and References<\/h3>\n
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Concept of “Mandamus”<\/h2>\n
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Mandamus (Civil Judicial Process)<\/h2>\n