Search Result for "cease_and_desist_order":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity;
- Example: "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
[syn: injunction, enjoining, enjoinment, cease and desist order]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cease and desist order
    n 1: (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party
         from doing or continuing to do a certain activity;
         "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a
         judicial order" [syn: injunction, enjoining,
         enjoinment, cease and desist order]