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Another word for ordinance

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Noun

  1. A principle governing affairs within or among political units

      1. A member of a clerical group living according to a canon, or rule
      2. An ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council.
      3. A secular law, rule, or code of law.
      1. (Roman Catholic Church) A doctrinal or disciplinary act of an ecclesiastical authority.
      2. An authoritative order having the force of law.
      3. An administrative act applying or interpreting articles of canon law.
      1. Any command or order
      2. An official public proclamation or order issued by authority; decree
      3. A decree or proclamation issued by an authority and having the force of law.
      1. A digest of or commentary on such principles or rudiments, especially a legal abstract.
      2. An institution for advanced study, research, and instruction in a restricted field
      3. An established principle, law, custom, or usage
      1. A rule of conduct or procedure established by custom, agreement, or authority.
      2. A statute, ordinance, or other rule enacted by a legislature.
      3. Legal action or proceedings; litigation:
      1. A rule or principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct.
      2. A rule or direction, as in technical matters
      3. A rule of moral conduct; maxim
      1. A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment.
      2. Something that is prescribed; a rule, law, or direction:
      3. The action of establishing a rule, law, or direction.
      1. The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.
      2. A governmental order having the force of law.
      3. A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
      1. A declaration, order, etc. made by a judge or court in deciding a specific question or point of law
      2. A minor regulation or law.
      3. A statute or regulation governing the court process:
    See also:

    law

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Another word for ordinance

Noun
      1. A statement describing a relationship observed to be invariable between or among phenomena for all cases in which the specified conditions are met:
      2. Something, such as an order or a dictum, having absolute or unquestioned authority:
      3. Legal action or proceedings; litigation:
      1. An established rule; formal regulation
      2. A law passed by a legislative body and set forth in a formal document
      3. A law enacted by a legislature.
      1. An order or instruction, especially one issued by an authority.
      2. A general instruction or order issued authoritatively
      1. The wishes of constituents expressed to a representative, legislature, etc., as through an election and regarded as an order
      2. In Roman law, a commission or contract by which a person undertakes to do something for another, without recompense but with indemnity against loss
      3. In English law, a bailment of personal property with no consideration
    See also:

    command

    law

    law

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Sentence Examples

  • In 1394 the Ordinance respecting annual elections was repealed by the king (Richard II.).

  • The ordinance establishing the special tribunal for the trial was passed by a remnant of the House of Commons alone, from which all dissentients were excluded by the army.

  • After the adoption of the North-West Ordinance the work of settlement made rapid progress.

  • Clouds from the retreating storm looked like a triumphant army, hauling away its ordinance for another engagement—with only white-gray stragglers tagging behind.

  • Dr Cutler was selected to negotiate with Congress, and seems to have helped to secure the incorporation in the Ordinance for the government of the North-West Territory of the paragraphs which prohibited slavery and provided for public education and for the support of the ministry.

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