the riot act (noun) decree: mandate, legal order
Sinonime: act,
announcement, behest, bidding,
charge, charging,
command, commandment,
declaration, decretum,
dictum,
direction,
directive,
edict, enactment, injunction,
instruction,
judgment,
law,
order, ordinance,
precept, prescript,
proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, rap,
regulation,
rule, ruling,
say, statute, the riot act, the word, ukase