supersedeas
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Origin of supersedeas
< Latin supersedeās, 2nd person singular present subjunctive of supersedēre to supersede, the writ being so named because supersedeās, i.e., you shall desist, occurs in it
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Appellate jurisdiction of all cases, civil and criminal, where an appeal writ of error or supersedeas may be taken or allowed by said courts from or to the judgment or proceedings of an inferior tribunal.
From Civil Government of Virginia by Fox, William Fayette
It is a message from the physician when the patient is past cure, and if the writ be well made, it is a supersedeas for all diseases.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
Luke Fox being ice-bound and in peril, writes, "God thinks upon our imprisonment with a supersedeas;" but he was a good and honorable man as well as euphuist.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
The supersedeas was carried to him by Sir George Coppin, who, at the presenting of it, received it with dejection and tears.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
By superseding the commission by writ of supersedeas, which suspends the power of all the justices, but does not totally destroy it; seeing it may be revived again by another writ, called a procedendo.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
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