exclusion order an order shutting out. 1. it is used sometimes to describe orders keeping named persons out of the UK.

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execution

2. in English law, the court has the power to order the exclusion of either spouse from the MATRIMONIAL HOME if it appears to the court that the making of the order is necessary for the protection of the applicant or of any child of the family from any conduct or threat- ened conduct or reasonably apprehended conduct of the other spouse that is or would be injurious to the physical or mental health of the applicant or child.

In Scots family law, part of the regime established to protect the vic- tims of domestic violence in relation to the occupation of a matrimo- nial home. The court can exclude on an interim or permanent basis a violent spouse, regardless of whether the person owns the house or is the tenant. The court will do so if it is necessary for the protection of the applicant or any child of the family as a result of any conduct or threatened or reasonably apprehended conduct of the other spouse that is or would be injurious to the physical or mental health of the applicant or child.

3. see EXCLUSION.

• striking out
• sua sponte
• subcontract
• subinfeudation
• sub judice
• subordinate legislation
• subornation
• subpoena
• sub rosa
• subscription
• subsequente copula
• subsidiarity
• subsidiary
• succession
• sufficiency
• suicide
• sui generis
• sui juris
• summary diligence
• summary trial
• summing up
• supranational
• supremacy
• supremacy clause
• Supreme Court