Stet processus is an entry on the roll in the nature of a judgment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed, (i.e., that the process may stand,) and It is one of the ways by which a suit may be terminated by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of It by judgment,’ which is the act of the court It was used by the plaintiff when he wished to suspend the action without suffering a nonsuit. Brown