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What is a court order?

What is a court order? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A written command, issued by a judge, requiring whomever it is served upon to do whatever the order says, under penalty of being held in contempt of court.
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The businesses were promptly shut down by court order and placed in receivership.
Thus, disclosure of data may be sanctioned by a court order and is allowed where the data subject has consented to it.
If it is not vacated by today, the council will seek a court order to send in bailiffs.
Kept secret at first, the list was made public by a court order, and was quickly discovered to be rife with errors.
This is because, if the settlor can revoke the terms of the trust, a creditor can simply obtain a court order requiring him to do so.
Because of the bank holiday it would have taken several days to get a court order to move them.

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