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peace bond en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) A court order forbidding one party to bother another.
   • “She's awready^([sic]) about to get us put under a peace bond. She's all the time spying in that alley behind her shutters.” 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 7, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 151:
   • "... We're scared for you, and we think you oughta do something about him." Atticus smiled wryly. "Do what? Put him under a peace bond?" 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 23, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

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Relateds

restraining order

Translations (4)

fr 810 (Court order forbidding one party to bother another) · fr engagement de garder la paix (Court order forbidding one party to bother another) · de Kontaktverbot (Court order forbidding one party to bother another) · fi lähestymiskielto (Court order forbidding one party to bother another)