COURT ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does court order mean? 

• COURT ORDER (noun)
  The noun COURT ORDER has 1 sense:

1. a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something

  Familiarity information: COURT ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURT ORDER (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)