The word for today is…
injunction (noun):
1: a writ granted by a court of equity whereby one is required to do or to refrain from doing a specified act
2: the act or an instance of enjoining : order, admonition
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Injunction, injunction, what’s your function? When it first joined the English language in the 1400s, injunction referred to an authoritative command, and in the following century it developed a legal second sense applying specifically to a court order. Both of these meanings are still in use. Injunction ultimately comes from the Latin verb injungere (“to enjoin,” i.e., to issue an authoritative command or order), which in turn is based on jungere, meaning “to join”: it is joined as a jungere descendant by several words including junction, conjunction, enjoin, and join.
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