En·join·ment n. Direction; command; authoritative admonition. [Obs.]
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  enjoinment
       n : (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party
           from doing or continuing to do a certain activity;
           "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a
           judicial order" [syn: injunction, enjoining, cease
           and desist order]