Synonyms for court order
court or·der

Princeton's WordNet

1. court ordernoun

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

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Writ

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1. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly:

   You can't pick and choose the laws that you obey, and I can't pick and choose the laws that we're by law required to enforce. ... We had a court order to remove her and we did.

2. Rumbold Seidelman:

   To protect themselves, it's very important for same-sex couples to secure their parentage by obtaining a court order of adoption or order of parentage from a court since court orders are entitled to full faith and credit, couples -- especially in hostile states -- should not rely on their marriage, or both being on the birth certificate, to secure their parental relationship to their child.

3. Mohammad Ali Qureshi:

   Members of the VHP came to Deonar abattoir late at night and asked us to stop the slaughter, showing the copy of the High Court order.

4. Deborah Pearlstein:

   If the sitting President has said he's not going to assert privilege, then there's a certain amount of time( before) the documents then have to be released unless the former President succeeds in getting a court order, an injunction, for example, prohibiting their release, that would require a pretty significant ruling by a federal court.

5. Lisa Bloom:

   If we find out the estate is selling off things, dissipating assets, we will go in for a court order.