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stay
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.
stay away order
n. a court order that a person may not come near and/or contact another.
stay of execution
n. a court-ordered delay in inflicting the death penalty.



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