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Postponment of trial

of trial. Civil trials in the High Court may be postponed under (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVI.; County Court trials under

postpone

postpone post·poned post·pon·ing 1 : to put off to a later

Postpone

deferred or put off to delay to adjourn as to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day or

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Postponer

One who postpones

Postponence

The act of postponing in sense 2

Postponement

The act of postponing a deferring or putting off to a future time a

Remanet

Remanet, means a case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed; a remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Respite

Respite, to postpone--thus, to enter and respite an appeal is to enter the

Trust for sale

in favour of purchasers (s. 23); confers a power to postpone sale in the absence of a contrary intention (s. 25);

Reprieve

if the criminal become non compos, 4 Steph. Com. Temporary postponement of execution of a criminal sentence, esp. a death sentence,

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