Order

Command; direction. An informal bill of exchange or letter of request requiring the party to whom it is addressed to deliver property of the person making the order to some one therein described. A designation of the person to whom a bill of exchange or negotiable promissory note is to be paid. This order, in the case of negotiable paper, is usually by indorsement, and may be either express, as, "Pay to C. D.," or implied merely, as by writing A. B. (the payee's name). See "Indorsement." In French Law. The act by which the rank of preferences of claims, among creditors who have liens over the price which arises out of the sale of an immovable subject, is ascertained.

Dalloz.

In Governmental Law. By this expression is understood the several bodies which compose the state. In ancient Rome, for example, there were three distinct orders, namely, that of the senators, that of the patricians, and that of the plebeians. In the United States there are no orders of men; all men are equal in the eye of the law.

See Rank.