Stop Order
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
' In English Chancery Practice. An order to prevent a fund in court from being paid out or otherwise deal with without notice to a claimant. In Commercial Usage. An order to
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A difection given by the purchaser to the broker to the effect that, if der while it is being held, the broker shall sell it at the best price available; Richter v. Poe, 109 Md. 20, 71 Atl. 420, 22 L. R. A. (N. S.) 174.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
The name of an order grantable in English chancery practice, to prevent drawing out a fund in court to the prejudice of an assignee or lienholder. If any person entitled, in expectancy or otherwise, to any share or portion of any stocks or funds standing in the name of the accountant-general of the court to the general credit of any cause, or to the account of any class or classes of persons, assigns his interest in such stock or funds, the assignee (although not a party to the cause in which the fund is standing) may present a petition for a stop order to prevent the transfer or payment of such stock or funds, or any part thereof. Such order is grantable on petition alleging the assignment or lien, and proof by affidavit. The order, being passed and entered, is delivered at the accountant-general's office; upon which the payment of the fund is stayed until the order is discharged, or another order is made directing payment notwithstanding the stop order. The person putting on the stop order may appear at the hearing, or upon a petition being presented for the payment of the fund to a party in the cause who claims it. The stop order will then be either discharged, or payment to the person who has obtained it will be ordered. See Wharton.