court ordernoun [ C ]
uk/ˌkɔːt ˈɔː.dər/us/ˌkɔːrt ˈɔːr.dɚ/an instruction given by a court telling someone what they can or cannot do
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Court cases, orders & decisions
- actionable
- administer
- admissible
- affidavit
- affiliation order
- bail
- bale
- defend
- injunction
- judgment
- judicature
- judicial
- jurisdiction
- plea
- remedy
- Rex
- ruling
- separation
- sequester
- show trial
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Examples from literature
- Merchants and traders could settle their trade disputes by arbitration, which decision could be enforced by court order.
- The lame point in his self-defense was his failure to support his children, and it took a court order to rectify this in part.
- They'd taken possession of the property and had a court order restraining me from going onto the grounds.
- To place the man under court order to stay away from home and pay his wife a stated amount weekly.
- Whether the man under court order is on probation or not, the cessation of payments should automatically reopen the case.