(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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• (n.) A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
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(n)Supersedes is the order, judgement, proclemation outcome etc which suppress the order, judgment, proclamation etc of a lower authority to stop implementation of the order issued by the subordinate. If a lower court remand a person to police custody and upper court grants bail the order of the upper court supersedes the order remanding the person...
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Su`per·se'de·as noun [ Latin , suspend, set aside, stay, 2d pers. sing. present subjunctive of
supersedere . See
Supersede .]
(Law) A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
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The name of a writ containing a command to stay the proceedings at law. It is granted on good cause shown that the party ought not to proceed. There are some writs which though they do not bear this name have the effect to supersede the proceedings, namely, a writ of error, when bail is entered, operates as a supersedeas, and a writ of certiorari.....
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a writ ordering a stoppage or suspension of a judicial proceeding, of the execution of a judgment, or of the enforcement of another writ.
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