court order
any rule or regulation of a court with which one must comply or risk a contempt action.
Origin of court order
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How to use court order in a sentence
The committee responded by seeking a court order to force Kelly and Stepien to cooperate.
Christie Aides Can Keep Bridgegate Emails Under Wraps | Olivia Nuzzi | April 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the other 19, things are more complicated, often requiring a court order and approval from a committee to proceed.
U.S. Prisons Becoming De Facto Home of the Mentally Ill | Abby Haglage | April 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere also proved to be a court order forbidding him from ever having anything to do with this particular relative.
Timothy Vafeades, the Vampire Trucker, Shames the Undead | Michael Daly | December 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf an employer refuses to pay up even when a court order has been issued, there is little a worker can do.
With liberals outraged by the Verizon court order, Daniel Klaidman and Eli Lake chart the change.
How Barack Obama Made Friends With Big Brother | Daniel Klaidman, Eli Lake | June 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
No reports as to business done had been filed in Fulton County up to the date of the court order above mentioned.
The Modern Ku Klux Klan | Henry Peck FryI will accompany you and serve this court order on the deputy sheriff.
The Motor Boys in the Clouds | Clarence YoungAnother court order concerned the delivery of a boat, and 3500 six-penny nails lent by John Neale.
Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia | Cerinda W. EvansJust as Mr. Andrew Blake was about to take possession of the property in our name, a court order restrained him.
Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall | Annie Roe CarrThe withdrawal, it will be noticed, was not in obedience to a court order, but followed a mere comstockian threat.
A Book of Prefaces | H. L. Mencken
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