单词 | Quo warranto |
释义 | 權利調查令 Lat – by what authority. A writ requiring a person to show by what warrant he or she holds office or exercises a function. An order issued by a court to remedy the improper usurpation of a public office. It is a prerogative remedy, but is very rarely issued. It has been abolished: High Court Ordinance (Cap 4) s 46, sch. All information in the nature of quo warranto were abolished, and this procedure has been replaced by a provision enabling the court to grant an injunction to restrain a person from acting in an office where he is not entitled so to do, and if the case so requires, to declare the office to be vacant: s 21J(1). See also Prerogative remedy; Prerogative writs. |
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