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order

public disclosure or discussion (as by the involved parties or the press) of information relating to a case order to show cause : an order requiring the prospective object of a legal action to show cause why that action should … violence] called also protection order protective order compare temporary restraining order in this entry show cause order : order to show cause in this entry tem·po·rary restraining order 1 : an order of brief duration that is issued ex parte

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Rules of Court

Edn., 1577 et seq. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, Ord. LIII., rr. 2, 3, no rule or order to show cause shall be granted in any action except in the cases in which an application for such rule or

Judgment

immediate but of a minimal nature and rather too remote because the plaintiff still possesses his full right to show that the defence is false and succeed in the suit. Thus, such an order passed by the Trial … to be found out by the Court. The nature of the order will have to be examined in order to ascertation whether there has been a determination of any right or liability, Shanti Kumar R. Canji v. Home … Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing

writ

of a previous one alternative writ : a writ commanding one to perform a mandated act or else to show cause why the act need not be performed compare peremptory writ in this entry extraordinary writ : a writ … name of the English monarch from Anglo-Saxon times to declare his grants, wishes, and commands 2 : an order or mandatory process in writing issued in the name of the sovereign or of a court or judicial

warrant

administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also … no-knock search warrant : a search warrant allowing law enforcement officers to enter premises without prior announcement in order to prevent destruction of evidence (as illegal drugs) or harm to the officers compare exigent circumstances rendition warrant :

Decree nisi

of the decree nisi and before the decree is made absolute, any person may, in the prescribed manner, show cause why the decree should not be made absolute by reason of the decree having been obtained by collusion … until after the expiration of six months from the pronouncing thereof, unless the Court by general or special order from time to time fixes a shorter time. (2) After the pronouncing of the decree nisi and before

Distringas

a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had … and then a pluries were issued, and upon the return of the latter, if default were made, an order nisi for a sequestation was obtained as of course, and if no cause was shown, the order would

Scire facias

to know), a judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record. The writ, though not abolished, is … resorted to in Chancery suits, when they became abated; but this mode became superseded in practice by the order of revivor, which see.

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