Look up ordinance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ordinance may refer to: Ordinance (Belgium), a law adopted by the Brussels Parliament or the Common...

Ordinance of 1787, commonly known as the Northwest Ordinance, that created the Northwest Territory Ordinance (disambiguation) Land Reform Ordinance (disambiguation)...

Events leading to the American Civil War Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff...

The Sullivan Ordinance was a municipal law passed on January 21, 1908, in New York City by the board of aldermen, barring the management of a public place...

in China. The ordinance consolidated the original Crimes Ordinance of 1971 with several others ordinances: Coinage Offences Ordinance 1964 (Cap. 204)...

The Ordinance of Nullification declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the borders of the U.S. state of South Carolina, beginning on...

A local ordinance is a law issued by a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, or the like. In Hong Kong, all laws enacted...

Ordinances are laws that are promulgated by the President of India on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet, which will have the same effect as an Act...

The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan...

An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War...