Supersedeas

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supersedeas \Su`per*se"de*as\, n. [L., suspend, set aside, stay,
     2d pers. sing. present subjunctive of supersedere. See
     {Supersede}.] (Law)
     A writ of command to suspend the powers of an officer in
     certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ.
     --Blackstone.


     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SUPERSEDEAS, practice, actions. The name of a writ containing a command to 
  stay the proceedings at law. 
       2. It is granted on good cause shown that the party ought not to 
  proceed. F. N. B. 236. There are some writs which though they do not bear 
  this name have the effect to supersede the proceedings, namely, a writ of 
  error, when bail is entered, operates as a supersedeas, and a writ of 
  certiorari to remove the proceedings of an inferior into a superior court 
  has, in general, the same effect. 8 Mod. 373; 1 Barnes, 260; 6 Binn. R. 461. 
  But, under special circumstances, the certiorari has not the effect to stay 
  the proceedings, particularly where summary proceedings, as to obtain 
  possession under the landlord and tenant law, are given by statute. 6 Binn. 
  R. 460; 1 Yeates, R. 49; 4 Dall. R. 214; 1 Ashm. R. 230; Vide Vin. Ab. h.t.; 
  Bac. Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. h.t.; Yelv. R. 6, note.