Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
enjoin , 3.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law, transitive To put an
injunction against.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Has the rush to injunct gone too far, too flagrantly?
As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it? 2011
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He threatened to evict looters from their council homes, injunct gang members, restrict access to social media presumably the same social media that allows police to gather intelligence, or arrest those stupid enough to brag on Twitter.
Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton 2011
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Separately, according to internal emails recovered by Scotland Yard, the News of the World commissioned a senior barrister to advise on whether they could injunct Lewis to stop him working for any alleged victim of phone hacking on the grounds that he had confidential information from his work for Gordon Taylor.
News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers 2011
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The News of the World also took specialist advice in an attempt to injunct Lewis to prevent him representing the victims of hacking and tried to persuade one of his former clients to sue him.
News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers 2011
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The newspaper's solicitors, Farrer and Co, wrote to Lewis threatening to injunct him if he took on any hacking clients but took no action when Lewis ignored the threat.
News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers 2011
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Too late to try and gag and injunct all this now - the Barbra Streisand Effect wins out yet again. afcone
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Who advised John Browne to attempt to injunct Associated Newspapers?
Law 2008
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Unlike the media, it need not fear that the Attorney General will try to injunct it to prevent contempt of court; nor can anyone else take action against it for what member say, whether under libel laws or any other cause of action.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Who advised John Browne to attempt to injunct Associated Newspapers?
Homosexuality 2007
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We felt 60/40, 70/30, they were going to injunct us for the simple reason that the Americans, Pentagon would absolutely insist.
qroqqa commented on the word injunct
A back-formation from 'injunction'; it has some currency, but the standard legal verb related to 'injunction' is 'enjoin'.
August 8, 2008