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Orders






Orders

1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.

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Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.

Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.

Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.

Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.

Instructions
1) Practice. The statements of a cause of action, given by a client to his attorney, and which, where such is the practice, are sent to his pleader to put into legal form of a declaration. 2) Common law, Contracts. Orders given by a principal to his agent in relation to the business of his agency.

Owner
Property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or person-al, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his right.

Ship
This word, in its most enlarged sense, signifies a vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's hushand, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a sloop, or a three-masted vessel.

Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.



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Ordeal
An ancient superstitious mode of tribal. When in a criminal case the accused was arraigned, be might select the mode of trial either by God and his country, that is, by jury; or by God only, that is by ordeal.

Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.

Order after hearing
A written order issued after a hearing and signed by a judge.

Order nisi
A conditional order which is to be confirmed unless something be done, which has been required, by a time specified.

Order of examination
A court proceeding during which a judgment debtor is questioned about his or her assets. the questioning is done under oath.

Order of filiation
The name of a judgment tendered by two justices, having jurisdiction in such case, in which a man therein named is adjudged to be the putative father of a bastard child; and it is farther adjudged that he pay a certain sum for its support.

Order of proof
The order (arrangement) in which a number of facts must first be proven by the claimant, followed by other facts proven by the defendant and finally, the counterproof by the claimant. The order of proof, for example, of a cargo claim under the Hague or Hague/Visby Rules must be distinguished from the conduct of a trial, supra. The order of proof of the Hague or Hague/Visby Rules is a part of those Rules and must be recognized as part of the substantive proper law of all contracts of carriage subject to those Rules. The conduct of the trial and formalities of the forum court, on the other hand, are purely of questions of practice of the lex fori. See additionally burden of proof, conduct of the trial and formalities of the forum court, supra.

Order of protection
An order assigned by the court to prevent one spouse from doing something. typically, this is assigned in cases where one spouse is harassing the other. if the spouse refuses to abide by the order, he or she may be arrested and end up in jail.

Order to show cause
A court order requiring a party to a civil action to appear in court on a specific date and time. this is scheduled to explain why the court should not take a particular action in the case.



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Order of examination
A court proceeding during which a judgment debtor is questioned about his or her assets. the questioning is done under oath.

Order of filiation
The name of a judgment tendered by two justices, having jurisdiction in such case, in which a man therein named is adjudged to be the putative father of a bastard child; and it is farther adjudged that he pay a certain sum for its support.

Order of proof
The order (arrangement) in which a number of facts must first be proven by the claimant, followed by other facts proven by the defendant and finally, the counterproof by the claimant. The order of proof, for example, of a cargo claim under the Hague or Hague/Visby Rules must be distinguished from the conduct of a trial, supra. The order of proof of the Hague or Hague/Visby Rules is a part of those Rules and must be recognized as part of the substantive proper law of all contracts of carriage subject to those Rules. The conduct of the trial and formalities of the forum court, on the other hand, are purely of questions of practice of the lex fori. See additionally burden of proof, conduct of the trial and formalities of the forum court, supra.

Order of protection
An order assigned by the court to prevent one spouse from doing something. typically, this is assigned in cases where one spouse is harassing the other. if the spouse refuses to abide by the order, he or she may be arrested and end up in jail.

Order to show cause
A court order requiring a party to a civil action to appear in court on a specific date and time. this is scheduled to explain why the court should not take a particular action in the case.

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Ordinance
Legislation. A law, a statute, a decree.

Ordinance of 1787
An act of congress which regulates the territories of the United States. Some parts of this ordinance were designed for the temporary government of the territory north-west of the river Ohio while other parts were intended to be permanent, and are now in force.

Ordinary
Civil and Ecclesiastical law. An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right and not by deputation.

Ordinary resolution
A resolution passed by a simple majority of members present at a general meeting of a company is known as an Ordinary Resolution.

Ordinary shares
A share entitling its holder to a dividend, if any, after the payment of the fixed dividend in respect of preference shares. Ordinary shares carry the residual economic value of a company. They carry rights to distribution of profits through dividends, to the surplus assets of a company on a winding up and to votes at general meetings of the company. resolution passed by a simple majority of members present at a general meeting of a company is known as an Ordinary Resolution.

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