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Definition of Stop order
1. Noun. An order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stop Order
Literary usage of Stop order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Charles Beavan, Henry Bickersteth Langdale, John Romilly Romilly, Chaloner William Chute (1869)
"A person, not a party to the suit, claiming i portion of it aa against the
Plaintiff, applied for a stop-order, and, having shewn a sufficient prima facie ..."
2. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Tindal King, W. O. Goldschmidt, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1901)
"Accordingly an assignee who has obtained a stop order after the bankruptcy of
his assignor is entitled to priority over the trustee in bankruptcy ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by Richard Holmes Coote, William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith (1884)
"first stop order. Limit of stop order. To what account the fund must be carried.
When notice complete before stop order. Court not in possession of whole ..."
4. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1877)
"Where the mortgagee of a share of a fund in Court obtains a stop order, which in
effect prevents *the division of the fund without notice to him, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Richard Horton Smith, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1874)
"A stop order is a public notice which tells all the world that the person claiming it
... Beckford, (a) where, indeed, the term " stop order" was not used, ..."