Terms Used In 20 Guam Code Ann. § 3304

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
An injunction cannot be granted:

First. To stay a judicial proceeding pending at the commencement of the action in which the injunction is demanded, unless such restraint is necessary to prevent a multiplicity of such proceedings.

Second. To stay proceedings in a court of the United States.

Third. To stay proceedings in another state or territory upon a judgment of a court of that state or territory.

Fourth. To prevent the execution of a public law, by officers of the law, for the public benefit.

Fifth. To prevent the breach of a contract, other than a contract in writing for the rendition or furnishing of personal services from one to another where the maximum compensation for such service is at the rate of not less than six thousand dollars ($6,000.00) per annum and where the promised service is of a special, unique, unusual, extraordinary or

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intellectual character, which gives it peculiar value, the loss of which cannot be reasonably or adequately compensated in damages in an action at law, the performance of which would not be specifically enforced; provided however, that an injunction may be granted to prevent the breach of a contract entered into between any nonprofit cooperative corporation or association and a member or stockholder thereof in respect to any provision regarding the sale or delivery to the corporation or association of the products produced or acquired by such member or stockholder.

Sixth. To prevent the exercise of a public or private office, in a lawful manner, by the person in possession.

SOURCE: CC § 3423.

NOTE: No CC §§ 3424-3428 existed.

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