Desist

  • 41cease and desist letter — A letter from an intellectual property owner that requests that alleged illegal activity, such as copyright infringement, be stopped immediately. Category: Patent, Copyright & Trademark → Copyright Law Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald… …

    Law dictionary

  • 42cease-and-desist order — An order issued after notice and opportunity for hearing, requiring a depository institution, a holding company or a depository institution official to terminate unlawful, unsafe or unsound banking practices. Cease and desist orders are issued by …

    Financial and business terms

  • 43cease and desist order — An order of an administrative agency or court prohibiting a person or business firm from continuing a particular course of conduct, e.g. Fed. Trade Commission may order a business to cease and desist from misbranding or misadvertising its… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 44cease and desist order — An order of an administrative agency or court prohibiting a person or business firm from continuing a particular course of conduct, e.g. Fed. Trade Commission may order a business to cease and desist from misbranding or misadvertising its… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 45cease and desist order — noun Date: 1926 an order from an administrative agency to refrain from a method of competition or a labor practice found by the agency to be unfair …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 46cease-and-desist order — /sees euhn di zist , sist / an order by a government agency to a person or corporation to terminate a business practice found by the agency to be illegal or unfair. [1925 30] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 47cease and desist order — temporary order from a government authority that orders a business to stop a certain activity (when there is suspicion of impropriety or of a violation of the law) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 48cease and desist order — An order by an administrative agency which requires that certain practices specified be stopped. 2 Am J2d Admin L § 467. Thus, an order of a National Labor Relations Board restraining an employer from an unfair labor practice. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 49cease-and-desist order — /sees euhn di zist , sist / an order by a government agency to a person or corporation to terminate a business practice found by the agency to be illegal or unfair. [1925 30] …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 50Desisted — Desist De*sist (?; 277), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Desisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desisting}.] [L. desistere; de + sistere to stand, stop, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. d[ e]sister. See {Stand}.] To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; often with… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English