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Injunctions and appointment of receivers
Cap. 91, s. 27 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Subject to rules of court, the Court may grant a mandamus or injunction or appoint a receiver by an interlocutory order in all cases in which it appears to the Court to be just or convenient to do so.
(2) Any such order may be made either unconditionally or on such terms and conditions as the Court thinks just.
(3) If, whether before, or at, or after the hearing of any cause or matter, an application is made for an injunction to prevent any threatened or apprehended waste or trespass, the injunction may be granted, if the Court thinks fit, whether the person against whom the injunction is sought is or is not in possession under any claim of title or otherwise or, if out of possession, does or does not claim a right to do the act sought to be restrained under any colour of title, and whether the estates claimed by both or by either of the parties are legal or equitable.
(4) The prerogative writs of mandamus, prohibition and certiorari shall no longer be issued by the Court.
(5) In any case where the Court would, but for sub-section
(4), have had jurisdiction to order the issue of a writ of mandamus requiring any act to be done, or a writ of prohibition prohibiting any proceedings or matter, or a writ of certiorari removing any proceedings or matter into the Court for any purpose, the Court may make an order requiring the act to be done or prohibiting or removing the proceedings or matter, as the case may be.
(6) The said orders shall be called respectively an order of mandamus, an order of prohibition and an order of certiorari.
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(7) No return shall be made to any such order and no pleadings in prohibition shall be allowed, but the order shall be final, subject to any right of appeal therefrom.
(8) In any enactment, references to any writ of mandamus,
prohibition or certiorari shall be construed as references to the corresponding order and references to the issue or award of any such writ shall be construed as references to the making of the corresponding order.
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