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Stay is an action taken by a court to stop a legal proceeding or the actions of a party. A stay most commonly is issued by a court as a stay of proceedings in order to stop litigation from continuing, and they normally are only temporary. A court will do this for many reasons such as if there is another proceeding occurring that will affect the present one or if a party must do something before the proceeding can continue.�

Another form of stay is a stay of execution which halts the enforcement of a judgement or sentence against someone. One more well-known example of a stay of execution is a pardon which governors and the president can make when they believe a person should be excused.�

A stay may also refer to an automatic stay which is a statutory requirement that a party not pursue some right. Automatic stays are most popular for bankruptcy where creditors are �stayed� from pursuing payments from the debtor until the bankruptcy proceedings have ended.�

Compare with injunction.�