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Abridged summary: The study of normed ordered vector spaces is not new and neither is the study of embedding them in Riesz spaces. What seems to be new in this text is the study of seminorms on partially ordered vector spaces by viewing these spaces as subspaces of Riesz spaces. What seems to be new in this text is the study of seminorms on partially ordered vector spaces by viewing these spaces as subspaces of Riesz spaces. Thus, special attention has been paid to restriction, extension, and isometrical embedding problems and new results have been obtained. The properties of a seminorm \(p\) on a partially ordered vector space \(E\) that play important roles from many points of view are what we call the Fremlin property \((- y\leq x\leq y\rightarrow p(x)\leq p(y))\), regularity \((p(x)= \inf\{p(y):- y\leq x\leq y\})\), and closedness of \(E^+\). Part of their significance can be found in the literature, mainly concerning spaces of operators. This text provides a more systematic treatment, dealing also with extension, isometrical embedding, norm completeness, and norm completions. Chapter 1 starts with a glossary of the basic theory of locally full and locally solid topologies. Also, basic theory of various types of seminorms is developed, dealing with, for instance, quotients with respect to kernels and closure of positive cones. Most results are accompanied by (counter)examples. Chapter 2 studies the question whether every monotone seminorm on a partially ordered vector space is the restriction of a monotone seminorm on a Riesz space. The answer is negative. (\dots) Chapter 3 studies a reasonable notion of ``Riesz seminorm'' on a partially ordered vector space. (\dots) Chapter 4 investigates what norms are restrictions of Riesz norms. Since every partially ordered vector space is (isomorphic to) a subspace of a Riesz space, it is very natural to ask which norms on partially ordered vector spaces allow embedding in normed Riesz spaces.(\dots) Chapter 5 applies the concepts and results developed in Chapters 1-4 to the theory of spaces of operators. Many of the results known in the literature are obtained as straightforward generalizations of results for spaces of operators between normed Riesz spaces. The theory of Chapter 4 leads to a new proof of Krein's lemma.