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To defer to a future or later time to put off also to cause to be deferred or put off to delay to adjourn as to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day or indefinitely...
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding v. Lorant, (1851) 3 HLC 418. The adjournment of a trial is in the discretion of the judge. As to adjournment of trial in the High Court, see R.SC. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34; and as to adjournments in County Courts, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 36.As to adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), s. 16.Unless the object of the context or inquiry otherwise warrants the term 'adjournment' in connection with a meeting should be applied only to the case of a meeting which has already convened and which is thereafter postponed and not to a case where a notice convening a meeting is cancelled and subsequently, a notice for holding the ...
Doff
To put off as dress to divest ones self of hence figuratively to put or thrust away to rid ones self of...
Remanet
Remanet, means a case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed; a remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1296.Remanet, the name given to a cause the trial of which has been postponed from one sittings to another. A new notice of trial does not seem to be necessary either when a cause has been made a remanet at the assizes, or when it has been made a remanet from one sittings to another, or has been put off by order of Nisi Prius. See A. P., notes to R.S.C. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34.Costs incurred for witnesses, etc., are allowed to the party ultimately prevailing.As the unexpired part of a sentence in Criminal Law. See SENTENCE.A case or proceeding whose hearing has been postponed, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1296....
Fourcher
Fourcher, to put off, or delay an action, Termes de la Ley....
Adjournment of the House
Adjournment of the House, means suspension (proceeding) for the day; to put off until a future day. Webster's Law Dictionary, p. 18....
Rejourn
To adjourn to put off...
Put off
A shift for evasion or delay an evasion an excuse...
Forslow
To delay to hinder to neglect to put off...
Procrastinate
To put off till to morrow or from day to day to defer to postpone to delay as to procrastinate repentance...
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