{"id":5348,"date":"2017-08-19T01:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5348"},"modified":"2017-08-19T01:16:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T01:16:25","slug":"writ-of-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5348","title":{"rendered":"Writ of Prohibition – issued by an appellate court to prevent a\u00a0lower court from exceeding jurisdiction or to prevent a nonjudicial officer or entity\u00a0from exercising a power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writ of Prohibition<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/strong>2. An extraordinary writ issued by an appellate court to prevent a\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>lower court from exceeding its jurisdiction or to prevent a nonjudicial officer or entity\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>from exercising a power.<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0Also termed prohibition or (in Scots law) inhibition.<\/em>\u201d[1]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Benjamin J. Shipman’s\u00a0<\/span>Handbook of Common-Law\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>Pleading<\/a>:<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cProhibition is a kind of common-law injunction to<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nprevent an unlawful assumption of jurisdiction… It is a\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>common-law injunction against governmental usurpation, as\u00a0<\/span>where one is called coram non judice (before a judge\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>unauthorized to take cognizance of the affair)<\/em>, to answer in a\u00a0<\/span>tribunal that has no legal cognizance of the cause; It arrests\u00a0<\/span>the proceedings of any tribunal, board, or person exercising\u00a0<\/span>judicial functions in a manner or by means not within its\u00a0<\/span><\/span>jurisdiction or discretion.<\/span>\u201d[2]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Forrest G. Ferris & Forrest G. Ferris Jr.’s<\/span>\u00a0The Law of\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span>Extraordinary Legal Remedies<\/em><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cThe remedy by writ of prohibition is of ancient origin\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>in our system of jurisprudence. It is an original remedial writ,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>as old as the co mmon law itself. \u00a0The writ is so ancient that\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>forms of it are given in Glanville (Beames\u2019 Trans.) … , the first\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>book of English law, written in the year 1189. The origin of the\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>proceeding by prohibition was to secure the sovereign rights,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>and preserve the public quiet. It was an emanative of the great\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>executive authority of the king, delegated to his courts, and\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>particularly to the king\u2019s bench. It was one of his prerogative\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>writs, necessary to perfect the administration of his justice and\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>the control of subordinate functionaries and authorities. \u00a0By\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>the writ of prohibition he forbade what ought not to be done,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>in cases where the general authority was not denied, or not\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>intended to be resumed.<\/span>\u201d[3]<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

References:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[1]:\u00a0All definitions throughout this page from\u00a0Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0<\/i><\/a>by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Benjamin J. Shipman, Handbook of Common-Law Pleading<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a7.341, at 542 (Henry Winthrop \u2018 Ballantine ed.,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>3d ed. 1923).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0Forrest G. Ferris & Forrest G. Ferris Jr.’s\u00a0The Law of\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>Extraordinary Legal<\/a> Remedies<\/a><\/em> 414-15 (1926)20<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writ of Prohibition: “2. An extraordinary writ issued by an appellate court to prevent a\u00a0lower court from exceeding its jurisdiction or to prevent a nonjudicial officer or entity\u00a0from exercising a power.\u00a0–\u00a0Also termed prohibition or (in Scots law) inhibition.\u201d[1] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Benjamin J. Shipman’s\u00a0Handbook of Common-Law\u00a0Pleading: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cProhibition is a kind of common-law … Continue reading Writ of Prohibition – issued by an appellate court to prevent a\u00a0lower court from exceeding jurisdiction or to prevent a nonjudicial officer or entity\u00a0from exercising a power<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5328,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5348","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5348\/revisions\/5353"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}