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Thieves oddly set to be restrained by court orders (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rustles

'thieves' is the definition.
(rustling is a kind of thieving)

'oddly set to be restrained by court orders' is the wordplay.
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters.
'to be restrained by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court orders' becomes 'rules'.
The alternating letters of 'set' are 'st'.
'st' put inside 'rules' is 'RUSTLES'.

(Another definition for rustles that I've seen is " Steals cattle or sounds like ulsters".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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