28-A - Mandate. - New York Statutes

§ 28-a. Mandate. "Mandate" includes a writ, process or other written direction, issued pursuant to law, out of a court, or made pursuant to law, by a court, a judge or person acting as a judicial officer, and commanding a court, board or other body, or an officer or other person, named or otherwise designated therein, to do or to refrain from doing an act therein specified.