Ordonnance
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a compilation or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at sea.
See Coolidge v. Inglee, 13 Mass. 43.