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Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare

Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare [Lat.], An adjournment is to appoint a day or to give a day. Adjourn has narrow and restricted meaning as 'refer'

Prorogation

they have reached, drop and have to be taken up from the beginning in a succeeding session; an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day. Prorogation never extends beyond eighty days, but fresh

Sine die

(without day, or indefinitely). Without a day being fixed. The consideration of a matter is said to be adjourned sine die when it is adjourned without a day being fixed for its resumption.

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County sessions

July and October, and the first sessions held in each of these months shall be Geneal Quarter Sessions; Adjourned Quarter Sessions shall also be held in all months at intervals of not less than two weeks or

Traditions

of the Court bind the lawyers and Judges in a sacred relationship of mutual trust and understanding. The adjournment of a case on the 'Illness Slip' reflects the Court's respect for theounsel and its consciousness that a

Session of Parliament

of Parliament, the sittings of the Houses of Lords and Commons, which are continued, day by day, by adjournment, until the Parliament is prorogued or dissolved. See PARLIAMENT.

Parliament prorogation

the House may take place any time, even while the House is sitting, usually, however, prorogation follows the adjournment of the sitting of the House sin a die, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L.

Proxy

meeting is to be held, and is to be available only at the meeting so specified, and any adjournment thereof [(English) Stamp Act, 1891, and First Schedule]. The Standing Orders of Parliament (L.S.O. 62 and C.S.O. 62)

Reflection

of Ways and Means, members of either House of Parliament or judges of the substantive motion of the adjournment, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Ebn., 1997, p. 384, 385.

Leave of the House

Sabha, formal leave of the House has to be obtained to introduce a Bill, move motions such as adjournment motion, motion of no confidence in the council of ministers, resolution for removal of Speaker/Deputy Speaker, to raise

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