A term applied in Scotch law and practice to the records of the criminal courts. The original records of criminal trials were called “bukis of adiornale,” or “books of adjournal,” few of which are now extant. An “act of adjournal” is an order of the court of justiciary entered on its minutes. Adjouraamentum est ad diem dicere sen diem dare. An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula “eat sine die.”