Usually means: Court order compelling official action.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word mandamus:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandamus: Merriam-Webster
  2. mandamus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mandamus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mandamus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mandamus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mandamus, mandamus: Wordnik
  7. mandamus: Wiktionary
  8. mandamus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mandamus: Dictionary.com
  10. mandamus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Mandamus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Mandamus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. mandamus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. mandamus: Rhymezone
  15. Mandamus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. mandamus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. mandamus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. mandamus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. mandamus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mandamus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. mandamus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. mandamus: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. Mandamus: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. mandamus: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mandamus: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. mandamus: Legal dictionary
  10. mandamus: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. mandamus: Webster's New World Law Dictionary

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  1. mandamus: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mandamus)

noun:  (law) A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
verb:  (transitive) To serve a writ of this kind upon.

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