Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ordinance

A subordinate legislation promulgated with the authority of a properly established body of the government , such as a city or town. See Skalnik v Town of Sperry, (Okl.App.) 527 P.2d 860.

In Modern Usage. A law passed by the legislative body of a municipal corporation for the government of such municipality. 117 Ind. 221. In Old Law. The term was applied to laws of other than municipal bodies. The following account of the difference between a statute and an ordinance is extracted from Bac. Abr. Statute (A) : Where the proceeding consisted only of a petition from parliament and an answer from the king, these were entered on the parliament roll; and if the matter was of a public nature, the whole was then styled an ‘ordinance.’ If, however, the petition and answer were not only of a public, but a novel, nature, they were then formed into an act by the king, with the aid of his council and judges, and entered on the statute roll. See Co. Litt. 159b, Butler’s note; 3 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 146. According to Lord Coke, the difference between a statute and an ordinance is that the latter has not had the assent of the king, lords, and commons, but is made merely by two of these powers. 4 Inst. 25. See Barr. Obs. St. 41, note (x). It is distinguished from a resolution by the same body by the fact that an ordinance prescribes a permanent rule of government, while a resolution is of a temporary character. 11 Ohio St. 96; 114 Ind. 336; 174 111. 445; 184 111. 51; 262 111. 396. Thus matters upon which a city council wishes to legislate must be put in the form of an ordinance, but all acts that are done in its ministerial capacity may be in the form of resolutions. Resolutions are special and temporary, applicable only to a single matter of passing moment; ordinances are permanent regulations, applicable to all states of facts thereafter arising within the scope of their provisions. 186 111. 571. Certain enactments in the nature of constitutions have also been referred to as ordinances, as, for example, the ordinance for the government of the Northwest Territory, passed by congress in 1787.

noun

• authoritative rule
• canon
• charter
• code
• command
• decree
• decretum
• direction
• edict
• edictum
• enactment
• fiat
• imperative
• law
• legal command
• legislation
• legislative decree
• legislative edict
• local law
• local legislation
• local rule
• mandate
• maxim
• municipal code
• municipal regulation
• ordainment
• order
• ordination
• prescript
• proclamation
• regulation
• requirement
• rule
• statute Associated Concepts: city ordinance
• criminal ordinance
• local ordinance
• municipal ordinance
• regulatory ordinance
• traffic ordinance
• violation of an ordinance
• zoning ordinance

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• Edicto
• Ordenanza
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Ordinance in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of ordinance.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Ordinance

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c. 1300, “an authoritative direction, decree, or command” (narrower or more transitory than a law), from Old French ordenance (Modern French ordonnance) or directly from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from Latin ordinantem (nominative ordinans), present participle of ordinare “put in order,” from ordo (genitive ordinis) “row, rank, series, arrangement” (see order; this term is also a noun.). By early 14c. senses had emerged of “arrangement in ranks or rows” (especially in order of battle), also “warlike provisions, equipment” (a sense now in ordnance).

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

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• ordinance in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• ordinance in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Concept of Ordinance in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Ordinance: A law of statute. The term used to designate the enactments of the legislative body of a municipal corporation or a county.

Concept of Ordinance in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Ordinance: A law of statute. The term used to designate the enactments of the legislative body of a municipal corporation or a county.

Meaning of Ordinance in Canada

In this country (and some others), a meaning of Ordinance may be the following: Usually a term used to designate the enactments of the legislative body of a municipal corporation.

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Translation of Ordinance

• Spanish: Ordenanza
• French: Ordonnance
• German: Ordonnance
• Italian: Ordinanza
• Portuguese: Portaria
• Polish: Rozporządzenie

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Law > Sources and branches of the law > Source of law > Legislation > Ordinance
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• Delegated legislation