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Supersedeas

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Supersedeas, [Lat. 'you shall desist'] a writ that lay in a gret many cases; and signified in general a command, on good cause shown, to stay some ordinary proceedings which ought otherwise to proceed, Fitz. N.B. 236. As to traverse and supersede as of an inquisition in lunacy, see Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 101-107; and (English) Patients Estates Rules, 1934, S.R. & O., 1934, No. 269/L2, r. 16.; Mills and Poyser, Lunacy Practice.

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