0 an official order from a court of law stating that a person or organization must do a particular thing:
I say that they are useless because their sanction is only a mandamus.
But your mandamus in that case is merely to call upon those who are responsible to levy sufficient money and pay it over.
The only effective remedy for all practical purposes in that case is to proceed by way of mandamus.
The second point was this, that there really were no powers except the power of a mandamus.
What remedy have you except that of a mandamus?
You can go to prison for mandamus, and you can spend long terms in prison.
There can be no case there of having to apply for a mandamus.
There was the power of the central authority and the power of mandamus.
