Where does injunction collide?

In law an injunction is a court order that compels a party to perform a specific act or, more often, to stop doing one, backed by the court's power to punish disobedience as contempt. It is a remedy in equity rather than an award of money, and courts grant it under settled conditions, weighing whether the harm would otherwise be hard to repair and how the burden falls on each side; an injunction can be temporary and issued early in a case or permanent and issued in the final judgment, and it can be prohibitory, forbidding conduct, or mandatory, requiring it. Douglas Laycock's 1991 The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule examined when such coercive relief is available and argued that courts grant it far more readily than the traditional doctrine claimed. Here the injunction is an enforceable instruction issued by a court and backed by the state, not a religious duty owed to God or a form of the verb in an ancient grammar.[1]

Unit

One court order in a case, prohibitory or mandatory, temporary or permanent

Recovery means

The issuing court can dissolve or modify the order, and it may be appealed

Measured by

Identified by the terms of the order and the procedural stage and legal test under which a court issued it

In religious ethics an injunction is an authoritative command, characteristically understood as a command of God, that a believer is held bound to obey, such as a scriptural precept or a commandment. On one influential account the wrongness of an act just consists in its being contrary to such a command, so that moral obligation is constituted by what a loving God enjoins rather than by human agreement or by consequences alone. Robert Merrihew Adams's 1999 Finite and Infinite Goods developed this position within a broader framework for ethics, treating divine commands as the ground of moral obligation. Studied this way the injunction is a normative directive whose authority is moral and, on this account, divine, and it is neither a court's enforceable order nor a grammatical category of the verb.[2]

Unit

One command taken as binding, such as a scriptural precept or commandment

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Studied through the wording of the command and philosophical or theological argument about its authority