mandamus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.

   “I admit to all my learned friends that a Mandamus does not issue where there is another course of proceeding by which the thing can be effected; but I again state to your Lordships, that if in this case a Mandamus must not issue, there is no other proceeding that can be adopted.”

2. fiil To serve a writ of this kind upon.