Short answer. Yes. Within five days of filing the complaint, a possessor deprived of possession through forcible entry or unlawful detainer may move for a writ of preliminary mandatory injunction to be restored to possession, and the court must decide that motion within thirty days.

What the law says

The court may grant preliminary injunction, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 58 hereof, to prevent the defendant from committing further acts of dispossession against the plaintiff. A possessor deprived of his possession through forcible entry or unlawful detainer may, within five days from the filing of the complaint, present a motion in the action for forcible entry or unlawful detainer for the issuance of a writ of preliminary mandatory injunction to restore him in his possession. The court shall decide the motion within thirty days from the filing thereof.

Rule 70, Section 15 — Preliminary injunction. Read the full provision →

Two related but distinct injunctive remedies

This section provides for both an ordinary preliminary injunction to prevent the defendant from committing further acts of dispossession against the plaintiff going forward, and a separate, more targeted remedy aimed at reversing dispossession that has already happened. The first remedy, granted in accordance with Rule 58, is preventive: it looks forward and stops the defendant from doing more harm while the case is pending, rather than undoing harm that has already occurred, which is exactly the gap the mandatory injunction is designed to fill.

The mandatory injunction to restore possession

That second remedy is available specifically to a possessor deprived of possession through forcible entry or unlawful detainer, who may, within five days from filing the complaint, present a motion for a writ of preliminary mandatory injunction asking the court to restore them to possession right away, without waiting for the whole case to be decided. Tying the motion to the five-day window from filing the complaint means the plaintiff must move for this relief essentially at the outset of the case, not as an afterthought once the case is already underway, since the underlying dispossession is presumably still fresh at that point.

A fast decision is required

The court is required to decide that motion within thirty days from its filing, keeping this urgent remedy consistent with the overall speed the summary procedure demands. This gives a dispossessed plaintiff a real chance at swift relief rather than having to wait out the entire case just to get possession back. A fixed thirty-day deadline on the motion itself, layered on top of the five-day filing window, keeps both ends of this remedy — when it can be sought and how soon it must be resolved — genuinely fast rather than fast in name only.

Related provisions

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