...unnecessary to decide that question. The writ of prohibition arrests the proceedings of any tribunal when such proceedings are without or in excess of the jurisdiction of such tribunal, and there is no plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law. (Code Civ. Proc.,...

...any tribunal, corporation, board, or person, whether exercising judicial or ministerial functions, when such proceedings are without or in excess of the jurisdiction of such tribunal, etc. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1102), and will issue only where there is not a plain, speedy, and adequate...

...redress the grievance of persons threatened by a usurped authority. It is, as defined by the statute, the counterpart of the writ of mandate. It arrests the proceedings of any tribunal or person exercising, or assuming to exercise, judicial functions, when such proceedings are without...

...that the writ of prohibition will not issue to arrest the proceedings of an inferior tribunal, unless such proceedings are without or in excess of the jurisdiction of such tribunal, and there is no plain, speedy and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law. (Code Civ. Proc.,...

...novo, and upon a renewal by defendant of his motion to dismiss the appeal, grant the relief prayed for. The writ of prohibition is the counterpart of the writ of mandate (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1102) ; and we held in Ferguson v. Board of Education, 1 Cal. App. 568, [95...

...1105. Certain provisions of the preceding Chapter applicable. § 1102. Writ of prohibition defined. The writ of prohibition is the counterpart of the...proceedings of any tribunal, corporation, board, or person exercising judicial functions, when such proceedings are without or in excess of the jurisdiction of...

...tribunal, corporation, board, or person, whether exercising functions judicial or ministerial, were without or in excess of the jurisdiction of such tribunal, corporation, board, or person, and the court, on trial, shall find that the allegations of the complaint are true, and that the plaintiff...

...state. Section 777, CCP, provides: "The writ of prohibition is the counterpart of the writ of mandamus. It arrests the proceedings of any tribunal, corporation,...person, when such proceedings are without or in excess o£ the jurisdiction of such tribunal, corporation, board or person." This section seems to have had...

...of San Francisco, under section 1102 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which declares that such writ " arrests the proceedings of any tribunal, corporation,...of such tribunal, corporation, board, or person." And the following section (1103) provides that the writ shall issue in all cases " where there is not...

...of Civil Procedure. The office of the writ is to Opinion of the Court — Morrison, C. .7. " arrest the proceedings of any tribunal, corporation, board,...of such tribunal, corporation, board, or person." The petition shows that the defendant, the Board of Election Commissioners, was created by "An Act...