0 an instruction given by a court telling someone what they can or cannot do
1 an instruction given by a court telling someone what they must or must not do:
Merchants and traders could settle their trade disputes by arbitration, which decision could be enforced by court order.
The lame point in his self-defense was his failure to support his children, and it took a court order to rectify this in part.
They'd taken possession of the property and had a court order restraining me from going onto the grounds.
To place the man under court order to stay away from home and pay his wife a stated amount weekly.
Whether the man under court order is on probation or not, the cessation of payments should automatically reopen the case.
However, when the man is irreversibly unconscious, the wife remains married unless she obtains a court order establishing otherwise.
One group was composed of incarcerated offenders, convicted for serious violent crimes and undergoing forensic psychiatric examination by court order.
Apparently, the unions had secured a court order and had gone on strike after the government had failed to implement it.