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To limit, confine, abridge, narrow down, or restrict. To prohibit from action; to put compulsion upon; to restrict; to hold or press back. To enjoin, (in equity.) … [Read more...] about RESTRAIN

See answer. A pleading in response to a prior pleading made by another party. … [Read more...] about RESPONSIVE PLEADINGS

Narrowing down, making less extensive; as, a restraining statute, by which the common law is narrowed down or made less extensive in its operation. … [Read more...] about RESTRAINING

The taking of lands into the hands of the crown, where a general livery or ouster le main was formerly misused. … [Read more...] about RESSEISER

A court order that directs a person not to do something, for example, spousal abuse and stalking cases where a person is directed not be within 150 feet of another person he has threatened through a restraining order. An order in the nature of an Injunction. See ORDER. … [Read more...] about RESTRAINING ORDER