#act__enactment  a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
  supertype:  #legal_document__legaldocument__legal_instrument__legalinstrument__officialdocument__instrument  a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
  subtype:  #decree__edict__fiat__order__rescript  a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
     subtype:  #consent_decree__consentdecree  an agreement between two parties that is sanctioned by the court; for example, a company might agree to stop certain questionable practices without admitting guilt
     subtype:  #curfew  an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited
     subtype:  #decree_nisi  a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; becomes absolute at some later date
     subtype:  #imperial_decree  a decree issued by a sovereign ruler
        subtype:  #ukase  an edict of the Russian tsar
        subtype:  #pragmatic_sanction__pragmaticsanction  an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land
     subtype:  #judicial_separation__legal_separation__legalseparation  a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart
     subtype:  #programma  an edict that has been publicly posted
     subtype:  #proscription__prohibition__ban__interdiction  a decree that prohibits something
        subtype:  #banning-order__banningorder  an order that bans something
        subtype:  #enjoining__injunction__enjoinment__cease_and_desist_order  (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
           subtype:  #mandatory_injunction__mandatoryinjunction  injunction requiring the performance of some specific act
           subtype:  #permanent_injunction__permanentinjunction__final_injunction__finalinjunction  injunction issued on completion of a trial
           subtype:  #temporary_injunction__temporaryinjunction__interlocutory_injunction__interlocutoryinjunction  injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over
     subtype:  #stay.decree  a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court"
        subtype:  #stay_of_execution  an order whereby a judgment is precluded from being executed for a specific period of time
  subtype:  #legislative_act__legislativeact__statute  an act passed by a legislative body
     subtype:  #enabling_act__enabling_clause__enablingclause  a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law
     subtype:  #ordinance  a statute enacted by a city government
     subtype:  #special_act__specialact  a legislative act that applies only to a particular person or particular district

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