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specific issue order

noun

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A court order that decides a particular question about how a child is to be brought up.

The mother applied for a specific issue order to allow the child to be enrolled at a faith school.

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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