Definition of "court order" []

• An order issued by a court that requires a person to do or refrain from doing something. (noun)

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• "When the divorce papers were first filed, she was Susan Ann Hargraves Jennings Larsen Mason — a maiden name and three husbands — but in this last court order she is listed as Susan Ann Hargraves Jennings Larsen Mason Diehl, and Caroline worries for a moment if husband four, Mr. Diehl, is facedown in the same ditch as his new wife."
• "Jim Forman and some of the others went on to Montgomery and started organizing and having a series of marches in Montgomery to the state capital before the march actually got the court order to march from Selma to Montgomery."