court order
English Thesaurus
1. a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | judicial writ, writ, |
| definition | : | (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | divestiture, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | execution, writ of execution, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | gag order, |
| definition | : | a court order restricting information or comment by the participants involved in a lawsuit (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | garnishment, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | interdict, interdiction, |
| definition | : | a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | jurisprudence, law, |
| definition | : | the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group) |
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