Meaning | A writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something. |
---|
Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
---|
Narrower | divestiture | An order to an offending party to rid itself of property |
---|
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 |
Broader | writ, judicial writ | (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer |
---|
Spanish | auto judicial |
---|
Catalan | acte judicial |
---|