1
[ verb ] issue an injunction

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)

In_addition , the right_to_vote the General_Motors stock held by du_Pont was to be vested in du_Pont 's stockholders , other_than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; du_Pont , Christiana , and Delaware were to be enjoined from acquiring stock in or exercising control over General_Motors ; du_Pont , Christiana , and Delaware were to be prohibited to have any director or officer in_common with General_Motors , and vice_versa ; and General_Motors and du_Pont were to be ordered to terminate any agreement that provided_for the purchase by General_Motors of any specified percentage of its requirements of any du_Pont manufactured product , or for the grant of exclusive patent_rights , or for a grant by General_Motors to du_Pont of a preferential right to make or sell any chemical discovery of General_Motors , or for the maintenance of any joint commercial_enterprise by the two companies .

Du_Pont would be enjoined from having as a director , officer , or employee anyone who was simultaneously an officer or employee of General_Motors , and no director , officer , or employee of du_Pont could serve as a director of General_Motors without court approval .

Related terms

forbid injunction

2
[ verb ] give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

Synonyms

tell order say

Examples

"I said to him to go home" "She ordered him to do the shopping" "The mother told the child to get dressed"

Used in print

(Booth Hemingway and Stuart H. Brown,...)

And divers must be enjoined to look before they leap , either on top of someone else or onto a pool edge .

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