restraining order

noun

, Law.

a judicial order to forbid a particular act until a decision is reached on an application for an injunction.

restraining order

law an order issued by a civil court to a potential abuser to keep away from those named in the order

First recorded in 1875–80

The judge refused to grant an extension of her restraining order.

When Dyan Cannon and Grant Grant split, she attained a restraining order, so he rented another house a bit further down the road.

He encouraged her to get a restraining order, which she did.

The restraining order led to Negron having his gun taken away.

“There was a scary verbal dispute and I filed a restraining order [of protection] in New Jersey,” she says.

Certainly if the restraining order of Judges Wood and Grosscup be good law there is no sense in maintaining organized labor.

She flouted his authority and sustained her incredible effrontery by a restraining order from the court.

Can you get a restraining order to prevent him from leaving?

The marshal approached and extended toward Sexton a copy of the restraining order.

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