1. WRIT OF MANDAMUS. A writ issued by a superior court ordering a public official or body or a lower court to perform a specified duty.

PURPOSE: To legally force the U.S. Treasury Department to issue Distress Warrants against any and every member of any identified and documented conspiracy or documented individual incident of fraudulent diversion of public fisc assets payable to the U.S. Treasury as taxpayers' funds or assets.

Title 28 U.S.C. § 1361. Writ of Mandamus.

Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty. The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff. To serve or compel with such a writ.

n : an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail [syn: writ of mandamus]

Latin mandmus, we order (used in such a writ), first person pl. present tense of mandre, to order. See man-2 in Indo-European Roots.

\Man*da"mus\, n. [L., we command, fr. mandare to command.] (Law) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.