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Definition of Ordinance

Ordinance Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance. An established rite or ceremony. Rank; order; station. Ordnance; cannon. Related Definitions: Accepted, Action, An, Arrangement, As, Authority, By, Cannon, Ceremony, Decree, Edict, Enacted, Established, Government, Law, Local, Municipal, Of, Or, Order, Orderly, Ordinance, Ordnance, Permanent, Preparation, Provision, Rank, Regulation, Rescript, Rite, Rule, Station, Statute, Usage

Ordinance Quotations No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. Saint Thomas Aquinas Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. Thomas Aquinas All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. Jonathan Mayhew The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. Henry James Sumner Maine

Ordinance Translations ordinance in French is injonction ordinance in German is Verordnung, Verordnung {f} ordinance in Italian is ordinanza, ordinamento ordinance in Spanish is disposicion, ordenanza ordinance in Swedish is stadga

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