interlocutory injunction

1. 1.

   injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over

   Synonymstemporary injunction

   Broaderinjunction

   law

Questions about interlocutory injunction

What does interlocutory injunction mean?

interlocutory injunction means "injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over".

What is another word for interlocutory injunction?

Close synonyms include temporary injunction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is interlocutory injunction a common word?

interlocutory injunction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.