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Restraining Order

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Restraining Order. 5 Vict. c. 5, s. 4, extended the preventive powers of Chancery by giving its judges authority, upon the application of any party interested, by motion or petition, to restrain the Bank of England, or other public company, from permitting the transfer of stock in the name of any person or body politic or from paying any dividends due or to become due; but this procedure is superseded by the procedure under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XLVI., rr. 3-14, first made in1880. See DISTRINGAS.

A court order prohibiting or restricting a person from harassing threatening, and sometimes even contacting or approaching another specified person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1315.

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