The Chancery Court-ordered sale of TransPerfect was set to move ahead Friday after Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard blocked in a last-ditch effort to break the corporate deadlock that has plagued the profitable translation-services company.

Bouchard’s ruling came on competing motions from co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Elting and Shirley Shawe, the mother of TransPerfect’s other founder and chief executive Philip Shawe.