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Please <a href="/Contact_us" title="Contact us">contact</a> us with any updates.</i> </p><p>A <b>writ of prohibition</b> is a written order sought in a <a href="/Appellate_Court" title="Appellate Court">Court of Appeal</a>, usually forbidding a lower court from undertaking further action on a cause pending before it. A writ of prohibition is a type of <a href="/Prerogative_writ" title="Prerogative writ">prerogative writ</a> and is often sought for one of two reasons: because the trial judge is illegally presiding over the case, or because the trial court has lost legal jurisdiction to try the case and is acting outside of the court's normal rules and procedures. The writ of prohibition is the counterpart of the writ of mandamus.<sup id="cite_ref-uslegal_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-uslegal-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p> <div id="div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0"><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1548351761485-0"); });</script></div><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/Mandamus" title="Mandamus">Mandamus</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2> <ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/prohibition-writ?cat=biz-fin">Definition from Answers.com</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Footnotes">Footnotes</span></h2> <p> <script type="text/javascript"> if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; </script> </p> <div class="references-small"><div class="mobile-columns"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-uslegal-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-uslegal_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://definitions.uslegal.com/w/writ-of-prohibition/">U.S. Legal: Writ of prohibition definition, accessed September 5, 2013</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/prohibition">The Free Dictionary: Prohibition definition, accessed September 5, 2013</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/writ-of-prohibition-term.html">NOLO's Plain-English Law Dictionary: Writ of prohibition definition, accessed September 5, 2013</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div></div> <table style="border:1px solid gray; font-size:85%;" class="collapsible collapsed" align="center" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#ccccff;" height="50px"><table width="95%" bgcolor="#ccccff" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="75px" bgcolor="white"> <div class="center"><div class="floatnone"><a href="/File:JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png" class="image"><img alt="JP-Terms and Definitions badge.png" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/5/51/JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png/50px-JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/5/51/JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png/75px-JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png 1.5x, https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/5/51/JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png/100px-JP-Terms_and_Definitions_badge.png 2x" data-file-width="432" data-file-height="432" /></a></div></div> </td><td style="background:#ccccff;" align="center"><div style="float:left; text-align:left; width:6em;"><div class="noprint plainlinksneverexpand" style="background-color:transparent; padding:0; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:normal; font-size:xx-small; ;"><a href="/Template:Terms" title="Template:Terms"><span title="View this template" style=";">v</span></a> <span style="font-size:80%;">•</span> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Template:Terms&action=edit"><span style="color:#002bb8;;" title="You can edit this template. 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