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- noun Plural form of
mandamus .
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Examples
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There was plenty of work for Daredeville and his brethren of the robe; but it all ended, after the flying about of sundry mandamuses and assize trials, in Sir
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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You realise, I hope, that there are here no judges, juries, nor lawyers, no _mandamuses_ and no appeals.
Revenge! Robert Barr 1881
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But if left to some other authority the right of counsel and the forms of a court would be invoked; the whole legal machinery of mandamuses, injunctions, _certioraris_, and the rules of evidence would be put in play to keep an incompetent clerk at his desk or a sleepy watchman on his beat.
American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869
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"` And he's removed from the jurisdiction of mundane mandamuses, 'says I, ` by the unearthly statutes of female partiality.
Law and Order 1910
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"'And he's removed from the jurisdiction of mundane mandamuses,' says
Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886
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