Pit Stop - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pit stoppit stop
A stop by one of the competing cars in a pit by the side of the racetrack to take on gasoline change tires or perform other maintenance...
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 ...
Pitted
Marked with little pits as in smallpox See Pit v t 2...
Cock-pit
Cock-pit, a set of apartments built on the site of the old cock-pit of Whitehall Palace. This was converted into the Privy Council offices in the reign of William III.; but the old name remained till modern times....
Pit's mouth value
Pit's mouth value, is indicative of value of mineral at the mouth of a pit, R.B. Bajpai v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1968) Jab LJ 658: (1968) MPLJ 267: (1968) MPWR 504....
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....
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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