ordinance
1ordinance — or·di·nance / ȯrd ən əns/ n: an authoritative decree or law; esp: a municipal regulation a zoning ordinance Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. ordinance …
2Ordinance XX — is an legal ordinance of the Government of Pakistan that was promulgated under the regime of General Zia ul Haq and is meant to restrict members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community from applying certain Islamic terms to their own religious… …
3ordinance — or‧di‧nance [ˈɔːdnəns ǁ ˈɔːrdnəns] noun [countable] LAW a law of a city or town that forbids or restricts an activity: • zoning ordinances that prohibit certain businesses from operating near churches * * * ordinance UK US /ˈɔːdɪnəns/ noun [C]… …
4Ordinance — Or di*nance, n. [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See {Ordain}, and cf. {Ordnance}, {Ordonnance}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. [1913 Webster] They had made their ordinance Of victual …
5Ordinance No. 46 — Ordinance No. 46, effective August 23, 1946 was an ordinance issued by the British Military Government in the British Zone in Germany by which, among others, the Prussian Province Schleswig Holstein became a separate Land (state). The full title… …
6Ordinance no. 13 — L’Ordinance No. 13, (arrêté no. 13) du Conseil Législatif de l île Maurice, promulgué le 17 décembre 1846, fixa, entre autres, le tarif postal interne comme suit: 2 pence par demie once (14,175 g) pour le courrier rural. 1 penny par… …
7ordinance — ordinance, ordnance, ordonnance An ordinance is ‘an authoritative order’, ordnance is ‘a branch of government service dealing with military stores and materials, and ordonnance is ‘a plan or method of literary or artistic competition’ or ‘an… …
8ordinance — (n.) c.1300, an authoritative direction, decree, or command (narrower or more transitory than a law), from O.Fr. ordenance (Mod.Fr. ordonnance), from M.L. ordinantia, from L. ordinantem (nom. ordinans), prp. of ordinare put in order (see ORDAIN… …
9ordinance — canon, precept, *law, rule, regulation, statute …
10ordinance — [n] law, rule authorization, canon, code, command, decree, dictum, direction, edict, enactment, fiat, mandate, order, precept, prescript, reg, regulation, ruling, statute, ukase; concept 318 …
