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Definition for: "Stay"

1. A postponement; a moratorium. 2. To stop or halt, usually temporarily, a legal proceeding.

n. a court-ordered short-term delay in judicial proceedings to give a losing defendant time to arrange for payment of the judgment or move out of the premises in an unlawful detainer case.

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