Definition of "court-ordered" [court-ordered]

• Ordered by a court of law (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "One-third of African-American men in their twenties are in some form of government custody, whether in prison, on probation, on parole, or under some other type of court-ordered supervision."
• "Mr. Prince extolled collections with a sure "taste and aesthetic," like the Barnes Collection—at least before a court-ordered transfer to downtown Philadelphia "destroyed" it—and the Glenstone Museum Foundation in Potomac, Md., owned by industrialist Mitchell Rales ."
• "But, the prosecution's case was blown apart by a court-ordered DNA review that discredited crucial genetic evidence."