A writ of King’s Bench, commanding the person named to do what the writ directs. The first word is “Mandamus.” (We command… .).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.