What is an injunction?

An injunction is when a court orders someone to do something or refrain from doing something. An example of that would be, say there were two parties that were having a dispute over land. One of the parties went on the land and started cutting down trees, but there's a dispute about who owns that land. The party that is not cutting down those trees can go to court and ask the court to enter an injunction to stop the person from cutting down the trees until a determination can be made of who owns that property.