supersedeas

A supersedeas is a writ, or order, to suspend the powers of an officer, or to stay -- that is, stop -- action under another writ.

Civil Government of Virginia William Fayette Fox 1872

The instrument, called a supersedeas bond, stays execution of a circuit court's approval while the appeal is pending.

The Home Equity Theft Reporter Cases & Articles 2010

His execution, in spite of the _ "supersedeas" _ which goes by law with every such suit, was the last of this series of judicial outrages. [

The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin 1883

Staying a money judgment in federal court without posting a supersedeas bond.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Judge releases Rezko on $8.5 million bond 2008

In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In New Hampshire, where pleadings had always been simple, clear, and direct, the lawyers introduced more sophistication and complexity during the years 1692 to 1700; the action of ejectment, the writs of scire facias and supersedeas, the action of trespass de bonis asportatis, entered New Hampshire as immigrants at this time.55 Students of Massachusetts law on the eve of the Revolution have declared it to be quite conservative, at least by earlier standards.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Luke Fox, being ice-bound and in peril, writes, “God thinks upon our imprisonment within a supersedeas;” but he was a good and honourable man as wall as euphuist.

The North-West Passage 2003

Accordingly, a surety company, objecting to the entry of a judgment against it on a supersedeas bond, without notice and an opportunity of a hearing on the issue of liability thereon, was not denied due process where the State practice provided the opportunity for such hearing by an appeal from the judgment so entered.

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

On May 31st Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, upon application of the State, granted a writ of supersedeas commanding that the order of the lower court "be stayed and suspended, and that the properties of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company be left in the hands of its officers until the further order of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals."

The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock Robert Digges Wimberly 1912