Legal Definitions - enjoin

Enjoin

Enjoin is a verb that means to prohibit someone from doing something by issuing an injunction. In other words, a court enjoins something when it issues an injunction against it.

• The judge enjoined the company from using the stolen technology.
• The court enjoined the protesters from blocking the entrance to the building.

These examples illustrate how enjoin is used to describe a court's action of prohibiting someone from doing something through an injunction. In the first example, the judge issued an injunction to prohibit the company from using stolen technology. In the second example, the court issued an injunction to prohibit the protesters from blocking the entrance to the building.