A minute of agreement registered for execution has the same effect as a court decree.

Last week a Federal judge issued a court decree ordering sweeping changes in the agency.

Under a 1981 court decree, the city has provided shelter as a legal right to anyone who is truly homeless, virtually without conditions.

Those paraprofessionals cannot be laid off, because their numbers are regulated by a 1980 court decree.

The city argues that operating under court decrees is inefficient and expensive.

In 1991 the trust was upheld by court decree, granting the Evergreens a future.

It has since been overturned by court decree.

But the longstanding battle to enforce court decrees seems to have reached a new impasse.

Court decrees require a quick shelter placement for medically fragile families.

A Federal court decree requires that children suspected of having a disability be processed in a timely fashion.

Most airline policies say they distribute miles according to court decrees over wills and divorces.

The plan, based on a 1974 Federal court decree, was agreed to by city officials to settle a discrimination suit by black firefighters.

Settling into her new job, Annie keeps coming across parents, all of them poor and powerless, who have had their children taken away by court decree.

According to the Supreme Court decree, Illinois may take no more than 3,200 cubic feet per second of water from the lake.

But like Karl Wilkens, another member of the board, he doesn't see how the court decree leaves them much discretion.

In several basins, however, groundwater use is regulated in accordance with court decrees.

No harm has come to Judge Bethel or to other officials around the country as a result of common-law court decrees.

In July 2005, a federal court-appointed monitor reported widespread abuses of a previous court decree against patronage hiring.

Despite the decreased prospects for market-rate housing, the city still has an obligation under the court decree to provide the subsidized units.

After every effort has been exhausted, including the use of private investigators and newspaper legal ads, the birth father's rights are terminated by a court decree.

How are annuities partitioned by court decree?

They have done their best to pack the bench and have sought court decrees ordering what a sensible electorate simply won't buy.

The jury then agreed, determining that the Chancery Court decree was valid, and finding for the defendant.

The patronage issues were due to Republican appointees from the previous administration refusing to leave their positions until a court decree forced them to vacate.

Parganas remained important as a geographical term, persisting in land surveys, village identification, court decrees, etc.