ADJOURNMENT

A putting off or postponing of business or of a session until another time or place; the act of a court, legislative body, public meeting, or officer, by which the session or assembly is dissolved, either temporarily or finally, and the business in hand dismissed from consideration, either definitely or for an interval. If the adjournment is final, it is said to be sine die. In the civil law. A calling into court; a summoning at an appointed time. Du Cange, Adjournment day. A further day appointed by the judges at the regular sittings at nisi prius to try issue of fact not then ready for trial. Adjournment day in error. In English practice. A day appointed some days before the end of the term at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1176. Adjournment in eyre. The appointment of a day when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Cowell; Spelman.