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session

business ;also : the period between the first meeting of a legislative or judicial body and the final adjournment see also regular session, special session

Illness slip

found to have continued for a long time merely on the 'illness slip' and, therefore, the facility of adjournment on this basis should be abolished so that the litigant whose counsel has fallen ill may make alternative

legislative day

which a legislature is in session that commences with the opening of a daily session and ends with adjournment and that may last more than one calendar day

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pocket veto

: a veto of legislation that occurs indirectly when an executive refrains from signing the legislation and the adjournment of the legislature prevents its automatic enactment (as upon expiration of ten days)

recess

recess : a temporary adjournment of a trial, hearing, or legislative session recess vb

ment

condition as aliment that which nourishes ornament increment fragment piece broken segment abridgment act of abridging imprisonment movement adjournment amazement state of being amazed astonishment

Pocket veto

shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return in which case it shall not be a lawrdquo Also an analogous retention of a

Readjournment

The act of readjourning a second or repeated adjournment

Anticipation

day is more effective than a motion, a substantive motion is more effective than a motion for the adjournment of the House. Parliamentary Practice ' Erskine May, 22nd Edn. 1997, p. 335. In Indian Parliament, a member

Eat inde sine die

a defendant, 'that he may go thence without a day,' i.e., be dismissed without any further trial or adjournment.

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