Stabilia
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A writ called by that name, founded on a custom in Normandy, that where a man in power claimed land in the possession of an inferior, he petitioned the prince that it might be put into his hands till the right was decided, whereupon he had this writ.
Wharton.
STABIT PRAESUMPTIO DONEC PRObetur in contrarium. A presumption will stand good until the contrary is proved.
Hob. 297; 3 Bl. Comm. 371; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 852; 16 Mass. 87.