restraining order

English

Noun

restraining order (plural restraining orders)

1. (law) An order issued by a court of law or other legal authority for a specified timeframe forbidding the restrained party from contacting and close proximity to the protected party and other restrictions, usually banning the possession of arms.
   • 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.

     Prescription drugs, they help me through the day / And that restraining order keeps me well at bay / And what's normal now, anyway?

Derived terms

• temporary restraining order

Translations

An order issued by a court of law or other legal authority for a specified timeframe forbidding the restrained party from contacting and close proximity to the protected party and other restrictions

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁止令 (jìnzhǐlìng)

• Czech: soudní zákaz m
• Dutch: contactverbod n, gebiedsverbod (nl) n
• Finnish: lähestymiskielto (fi)
• French: ordonnance restrictive (fr) f
• German: Kontaktverbot (de) n
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• Hungarian: távoltartás, távoltartási végzés
• Icelandic: nálgunarbann n
• Russian: суде́бный запре́т m (sudébnyj zaprét), запрети́тельный суде́бный прика́з m (zapretítelʹnyj sudébnyj prikáz)
• Spanish: orden de alejamiento m
• Swedish: besöksförbud, kontaktförbud

See also

• restraining order on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• peace bond