CCP 1085 Issuing Courts, and Writ's Mandates

1085. It may be issued by any court, except a municipal or justice

court, to an inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to

compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a

duty resulting from an office, trust, or station; or to compel the

admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to

which he is entitled, and from which he is unlawfully precluded by such

inferior tribunal, corporation, board or person.

(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1737, Sec. 148.)