special injunction

special injunction
A term of the early English practice for an injunction to prevent irreparable injury in a case where the preventive aid of the court of equity was the ultimate and only relief sought, being distinguished in this respect from the common injunction which was granted in aid of or as secondary to another equity. 28 Am J Rev ed Inj § 10.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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