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Court order

noun

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

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... Preston, Joseph Pope, Joseph Houlton, and John Tarbell, of the standing annual committee, to be held Feb. 14, 'to consider and agree and determine who are capable of voting in our public transactions, by the power given us by the General-court order at our first settlement; and to consider of and make void a vote in our book of records, on the 18th of June, 1689, where there is a salary of sixty-six pounds stated to Mr. Parris, he not complying with it; also to consider of and make void several votes in the book of records on the 10th ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham

... to ancient Rome the English customs and usages of his own time. In Porter and Clarke's 'First Folio' Julius Caesar, it is mentioned that Shakespeare's uncle Henry, a farmer in Snitterfield, according to a court order of October 25, 1583, was fined "viii d for not havinge and wearinge cappes on Sondayes ...

— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare