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COURT ORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("court order" is a kind of...):
judicial writ; writ ((law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "court order"):
divestiture (an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior)
execution; writ of execution (a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out)
gag order (a court order restricting information or comment by the participants involved in a lawsuit)
garnishment (a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee)
interdict; interdiction (a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity)
