Stop - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: stopstop
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 ...
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)....
stop order
stop order see order ...
stop payment
stop payment : a depositor's order to a bank to refuse to honor a specified check drawn by him or her ...
Four way stop
An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them...
Long stop
One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper...
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