legal order
Binding judicial directive
A legal order is a formal directive issued by a court or other authority with judicial power, requiring someone to do or refrain from doing something: The company received a legal order to cease operations.
Legal orders include injunctions, subpoenas, restraining orders, and warrants.
Failure to comply typically constitutes contempt of court and may result in penalties.
- litigationLegal dispute process
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
- natural lawInherent moral principles
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- judiciaryLaw-interpreting government branch
legislature · courts · civil court · supreme court · international treaties · adjudication · fair trial · constitutionalism · separation of powers · checks and balances · rule of law · due process · contractual obligations · binding contract · cease and desist · codification · civil liberties · arbitration
- German LawRichter, constitutional court, constitutional law, federal law, basic law
- jurisprudencenatural law, Hart, Austin, Thomas Aquinas, rule of law
- constitutional lawConstitution, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment
- legal bookslaw dictionary, casebook, hornbook, treatise, nutshell
legal ordersuggestion
Idea proposed for consideration
recommendation · request · guidance · plea · invitation
legal orderanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
lawlessness · chaos · disorder · mob rule · vigilantism
legal, order, legally, legality, legalize, legalization, illegal, illegally, illegality