“Short order is English law.” “In past cases, upon default, Edward E. Bannon, FRS (Francis E. McGregor) used the short order to enforce a certain term within a particular period. So in other cases did the court of chancery enforce the performance by a writ of execution only, without violating the brief of this order.” “A short order of this nature was necessary in all cases, (except a simple direction for payment of money to a party,) in which it was intended to enforce the immediate performance of one or more parts of a decree: thus, wherever it was wished to enforce the transfer of stock in the public funds, or the performance of any other act directed by the decree, it was necessary, in the first instance, to procure a short order directing it to be done on or before a certain day.” “My personal definition #input: @mgkrebb’s. Many thanks to @mgkrebbs for clarification.” “I find it as early as the decision in Hinton versus Hinton, July 16, 1755 (and I’m sure it was already a well-known phrase):…but in neither of these places does there in the register’s book any state of the pleadings or case; in the latter place is a common short order of dismission; so no state and no light can be had from thence.” “This is an example of the ‘National Reconciliation Order’ of 2007 in Pakistan that is a short order against the constitution.” “Due to instant short order, reasons of which shall be recorded later, we hold as follows:- Clearly, the legal sense of \”short order\” is that the order of the court shall be immediately, or consequences will follow.” “I’m not saying that that is the origin of \”in short order\”, but I think it lays the groundwork.” “The first place I find in the current sense \”short order\” used in a passage from a letter to the editor of the Atlantic magazine dated April 12th, 1824: I have not, indeed, heard from or of you, since that memorable day, when I packed up my alls, marched off at short order, without beat of drum, or asking what was to pay. The first place I find \”in short order\” is in the \”Journal of a Traveller to Louisville\” in the American Farm” “The gentlemen waited patient until the ruffian had sufficiently amused himself, and was several miles on his journey, and then again putting the spur to their horses they soon overtook him, and at the end of the end of the lash, compelled him to return. \”Obviously, in the English language of the driver the dreaded., made a Baptist of him in short order.” “In Hotel Meat Cooking by Jessup Whitehead (seventh edition, 1901), we see: The short order cook has the middle of the table and the middle of the range for cooking eggs and omelets, frying breaded articles, and perhaps he’s got the potatoes and onions, fried mush and tripe in batter, and the like.” “O. Henry’s first use of the phrase is in the short story An Adjustment of Nature, from the collection The Four Million: There amid the steam of vegetables and the vapours of acres of ham and,\” the crash of crockery, the clatter of steel, the screaming of \”short orders,\” the cries of the hungering and all the horrid tumult of feeding men, surrounded by swarms of the buzzing winged beasts bequeathed”