Supersedeas

Transaction

(sooh-purr-said-ee-uhs) Latin for “you shall desist,” an order (writ) by an appeals court commanding a lower court not to enforce or proceed with a judgment or sentence pending the decision on the appeal or until further order of the appeals court.

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