1. ORDER(8).
2. An SEC order that suspends a registration statement containing false, incomplete, or misleading information. [Cases: Securities Regulation 25.16. C.J.S. Securities Regulation § 85.]
3. A bank customer’s order instructing the bank not to honor one of the customer’s checks. — Also termed (in sense 3) stop-payment order. [Cases: Banks and Banking 139. C.J.S. Banks and Banking §§ 326, 353–355, 455.]