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Definition of Restraining
1. restrain [v] - See also: restrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Restraining
Literary usage of Restraining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(2) Remedial: (a) Enlarging; (b) Restraining.—Remedial statutes are those which
are made to supply such defects, and abridge such superfluities, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"The plaintiffs asked for an injunction restraining the activities of Wilson Bros,
and Holmes, also an account of damages. About the time that Branham and ..."
3. A Treatise on Code Pleading and Practice: Also Containing 1900 Forms Adapted by William Angus Sutherland (1910)
"Restraining order.—A restraining order is intended to continue only until the
propriety of granting a temporary injunction can be determined.153 The ..."
4. Company Precedents, for Use in Relation to Companies Subject to the by Francis Beaufort Palmer (1884)
"Order restraining issue of execution 491 591. Restraining sheriff from selling .
... Restraining removal of goods 492 593. Restraining removal or sale of ..."
5. Annotated Forms of Federal Procedure by Frank Olds Loveland, George Washington Rightmire (1920)
"The issue of a restraining order, which may be granted ex parte, ... As to the
practice of granting a restraining order pending an application for a ..."
6. The Lives and Opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler: United States District by William Lyon Mackenzie (1845)
"Do you see who compose the committee on the repeal of the restraining law in our
... The restraining law will be modified—the usury laws partially repealed, ..."
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