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Injunction

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a judicial order requiring a party to do or refrain from doing a specific act
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Stage 1 of 2
injungere
Latin · ancient
"to impose, to enjoin"
to enjoin, to impose, from in- (upon) and jungere (to join)
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Stage 2 of 2
injunction
English · 1400s
"a court order requiring or forbidding an action"
settled as the legal word for a court order requiring or forbidding an action
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