made, on a motion ‘in chancery, for the plaintiff to have an injunction to quiet his possession till the pears ee the cause. order, not being final, is interlocutory.” de la i rt bear f order. See MoNEY.—Oreder and disposition of goods and chattels. When goods are in thé “order and disposition” of a bankrupt, they go to his trustee, and have gone so since the time of James J. Wharton. er nisi. <A. provisional or conditional order, allowing a certain time within which to do some required act, on failure of which. the order will be made absolute —Order of discharge. In England. An order made under the bankruptcy act of 1869 by a court of bankruptcy, the effect of which s to discharge a bankrupt from all debts, claims, or demands rovable under the bankru tcy.—Order of filtion. An order made by a court or judge having jurisdiction, fixing the paternity of a bastard child upon a given man, and requiring him to.provide for its support.—Order of revivor. In English practice. An order as of course for the continuance of an abated suit. It superseded the bill of revivor.—Restrainsar order. In eanity: practice. An order which may issue upon e filing of an application for an injunction forbidding the defendant to do the threatened act until a hearing on the application can be had. ‘Though the term is sometimes used aS'a synonym of “injunction,” a restraining order is properly distinguishable from an snfunctlon: in that the former is inThis or any, such ermes tended only as a restraint upon the defendant until the propriety of granting an injunction. temporary or perpetual, can be determined, and it does no more than restrain the prusediugs until such determination. Wetzstein v. Boston, ete., Min. Co., 25 Mont. 135, 63 Pac. 1043; State v. Lichtenberg, 4 Wash. 407, 30 Pac. 716: Riggins v. Thompson, 96 Tex. 154, 71 8. W. 14. In English law, the term is specially applied to an order restraining the Bank of England, or any public company, from allowing any dealing with some stock or shares specified in the order. It is granted on motion or petition. Hunt. Eq. p. 216.—Speaking order. An order which contains matter which is explanatory or illustrative of the mere direction which is given by it is sometimes thus called. Duff v. Duff, 101 Cal. 1,35 Pac. 437.—Stop or~ der. The meaning of a stop order given to a broker is to wait until the market price of the particular security reaches a specified re, and then to “stop” the transaction by either selling or buying, as the case may be, as well as possible. Porter v. Wormser, 04 N. Y. 431. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action;.a iaw or statute. In a more limited sense, the term is used to designate the enactments of the legislative body of a municipal corporation. Citizens’ Gas Co. v. Elwood, 114 Ind. 3382, 16 N. E. 624; State v. Swindell, 146 Ind. 527, 45 N. E. 700, 58 Am. St. Rep. 375; Bills vy. Goshen, 117 Ind. 221, 20 N. B. 115, 38 L. R. A. 261; State v. Lee, 29 Minn. 445, 18 N. W. 9138. Strictly, a bill or law which might stand with the old law, and did not alter any statute in force at the time, and which became complete by the royal] assent on the parliamcnt roll, .without any entry on the statute roll. A bill or law which might at any time be amended by the rliament, without any statute. Hale, Com. w. An ordinance was otherwise distinguished from a statute by the circumstance that the latter uired the threefold assent of king, lords, and commons, while an ordinance might pe jorcetnes by one or two of these constituent jes. See 4 Inst. 25. The name has also been given to certain enactments, more general in their character than ordinary statutes, and serving as organic laws, yet not exactly to be called “constitutions.” Such was the “Ordinance for the government of the North-West Territory,’”’ enacted by congress in 1787.