...provided in our code that writs of mandate may be issued from the circuit courts to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins; or, a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. (2 G. & H. 322.) In the case of Frazer, Trustee,...

...warranto. Mandamus means to order or command. It is the name of a writ issued to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person to compel the performance of an act which the law enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. Habeas corpus is from the Latin,...

...467.) It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance...office to which he is entitled, and from which he is unlawfully precluded by such inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person. Stat. 1851, 124, read:...

...1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, unlawfully precluded by such inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person. 11.086. Wfil, when and...

...the same as it was at common law. It may be issued to any inferior court, corporation, board, officer or person to compel the performance of an act which...law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office of trust or station. (Civ. Code, I 583.) Two questions are raised by appellant on this appeal...

...owner shall lxi WH share. retained, or the proceeds invested for his benefit. Proceedings on Mandamus*. of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. But, though it may require an inferior tribunal to exercise its judgment, or proceed to the discharge...

...of the writ is to have the trustees call an annual election, as provided by law. The writ is issued "to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office." (Stat. 1869, 264, Sec. 447.) It cannot be held that there is any other plain, speedy or adequate...

...Section 447 of the civil practice act provides that the the writ may be issued "to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person to compel the performance...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station." The principle on which the writ of mandamus is issued sit common law is well settled by the authorities,...

...issued by any court in the territory, except a justice's or probate court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person, to compel the performance...a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. * * *" It is clear that the law enjoined upon the defendant the duty of paying into the state treasury...

...the court or judge, any plain, speedy, and adequate remedy." The office of the writ of mandamus "is to compel the performance of an act which the law...duty resulting from an office, trust, or station." I do not think that the power granted by the constitution to this court to issue these writs is limited...