court order

noun

: an order issuing from a competent court that requires a party to do or abstain from doing a specified act

Examples of court order in a Sentence

He received a court order barring him from entering the building. He is barred by court order from entering the building. The town is under court order to fix the problem.

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Those who fail their asylum cases and are deported by court order from the U.S. face a five-year reentry ban. —

Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2024 Advertisement Also on Thursday, a Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to defying a court order to report to prison to serve a three-month sentence for joining the Capitol riot. —

Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 He was transported to the hospital for medical evaluation and later booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, felony domestic violence, kidnapping, violation of a court order and resisting arrest. —

Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024 Aaron Nathan, attorney for Freeman and Moss, who believe Giuliani might be trying to hide assets from them, complained to New York federal Judge Lewis Liman on Monday about the removal of furnishing and belongings from his Upper East Side apartment weeks ago, in defiance of Liman's court order. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for court order