Law
- Local ordinance, a law made by a municipality or other local authority
- Act of Parliament, in some jurisdictions, such as England when the parliament operated without regal sanction, and a number of British colonies
- Royal ordinance, see Decree
- Ordonnance (French constitutional law), in French government, a regulation adopted by the executive in a domain normally reserved for statute law
- Ordinance (Belgium), a law adopted by the Brussels Parliament or the Common Community Commission
- Ordinance (university), a particular class of internal legislation in a United Kingdom university
- Ordinance XX, a law passed down in Pakistan which prevents Ahmadi Muslims from being identified as Muslims
In religion:
- Ordination, the process by which one is consecrated
- Ecclesiastical ordinances, the bylaws of a Christian religious organization
- Ordinance (Christian), Protestant term for religious ritual
- Baptist ordinance, Believer's Baptism and Lord's Supper
- Ordinance (Latter Day Saints), a religious ritual of special significance
- Ordinance room, place for Latter Day Saint ordinances
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Famous quotes containing the word law:
“And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children...”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular.... War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it.... War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)