A mandatory injunction is issued when a court directs a person to perform certain acts, as opposed to prohibitory injunction, which seeks to preserve the status quo. The defendant named in a mandatory injunction must undo the wrong or injury that one has caused. Unless prevented by constitutional or statutory provision, a court may issue a mandatory injunction where the defendant’s encroachment on the plaintiff’s rights is immediate, intentional and repetitive.
The required inclusion of a person who is not an original party to a lawsuit but whose presence in the lawsuit is necessary for it to proceed. This can be because the court would be unable to provide complete relief to the existing parties without that person, the person has an interest in the case that would be unprotected if left out, or the person would be subject to the risk of double jeopardy.
1. Apparent; clear; obvious; unquestionable; evident.
For example, something that is manifestly erroneous is clearly wrong.
According to the Supreme Court of Louisiana in Canter v. Koehring Co. (1973), the “manifest error rule” requires appellate courts to give great deference to lower trial courts’ factual inferences when reviewing cases, so long as the trial court’s account of the facts is reasonable and exhibits no manifest error.
The Mann Act (also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910) is a federal law that criminalizes the transportation of “any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.”
A manual accounting system is a bookkeeping system for recording business activity transactions, where financial records are kept without using a computer system with specialized accounting software.
Generally, margin, or profit margin, is the difference between a product or service’s selling price and the cost of production. See Investopedia. For example, if you pay 50 cents for a pencil and sell it for a dollar, your margin is 50%.
Marginal tax rate is a percentage of tax that a person incurs on the next dollar of income, as opposed to flat taxes that charge the same rate regardless of one’s income. A system that uses marginal tax rate requires a taxpayer with a higher income to pay a greater percentage of tax as specified in the income tax bracket. This way, the system seeks to place a higher tax burden on households with greater income and protects low-income taxpayers.
Marital misconduct refers to conduct that is alleged to have caused the erosion of a marriage.
Marital privilege, also known as spousal privilege, is recognized by the law of evidence and the Supreme Court to protect private spousal communications and prevent any testimony against a spouse from being used in judicial proceedings.
