Night Stop - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: night stopnight stop
A pause during a journey to rest for the night...
stop
stop stopped stop·ping vt 1 : to cause to halt [stopped payment] 2 : to subject to a legal stop vi : to cease activity or motion n : an act or instance of stopping ;specif : a temporary detention that constitutes a limited seizure of a person for the purpose of inquiry or investigation and that must be based on reasonable suspicion see also terry stop compare arrest ...
Third-night-awn-hinde
Third-night-awn-hinde [trium noctium hospes, Lat.]. By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a third-night-awn-hinde, and his host was answerable for him if he committed any offence. The first night, for-man-night, or uncuth (unknown), he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night, a guest; and the third night, an agen-hinde, a domestic. Bract. 1.3....
Nightly
Of or pertaining to the night or to every night happening or done by night or every night as nightly shades he kept nightly vigils...
Terry stop
Terry stop [from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), case in which the right of police to stop and question a suspect was first discussed] : a stop and limited search of a person for weapons justified by a police officer's reasonable conclusion that a crime is being or about to be committed by a person who may be armed and whose responses to questioning do not dispel the officer's fear of danger to the officer or to others compare reasonable suspicion ...
Stop Order
Stop Order. If any person entitled, in expectancy or otherwise, to any share of any stocks or funds, standing in the name of the Paymaster-General (formerly the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery: see (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872) to the general credit of any cause, or to the account of any class or classes of persons, assign his interest in such stock or funds, the assignee (although not a party to the cause in which the fund is standing) may apply by summons for a stop order to prevent the transfer or payment of such tock or funds, or any part thereof, without notice to him. And a person having a lien on a fund in Court may obtain a stop order. See (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI.; and consult Dan. Ch. Pr.; Seton on Judgments....
Night
Night, the time of darkness between sunset and sunrise. Under the Night Poaching begins one hour after sunset, and ends one hour(English) s before sunrise. Under the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 25 (see BURGLARY), and the (English) Factory Act, 1901, s. 156, night is between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m....
investigative stop
investigative stop : terry stop ...
stop and frisk statute
stop and frisk statute : a state law that allows a police officer to stop any person without making an arrest based on a reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime ...
Terry stop
Terry stop, means a stop and limited search of a person for weapons justified by a police officer's reasonable conclusion that a crime is being or about to be committed by a person who may be armed and whose responses to questioning do not dispel the officer's fear of danger to the officer or to others compare reasonable suspicion, Terry v. Ohio, 392 US 1 (1968)....
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