Adjournment Debates - Forthcoming business
Related glossary term: Debates
Related glossary term: Westminster Hall adjournment debates ...
ADJOURNMENT IN CONTEMPLATION OF DISMISSAL - A program handled in Court in which a defendant essentially is put on a quasi-probation for a set period of time (six months to one year) and his or her case does not go to trial during that time.
Adjournment - The postponing or putting off of a case or session of court until another time or place.
Adjudicate - To determine judicially.
ADJOURNMENT IN CONTEMPLATION OF DISMISSAL: See pre-trial diverson.
ADMINISTRATOR: Person appointed to oversee the handling of an estate when there is no will.
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE: see living will.
ADJOURNMENT - Postponing or rescheduling a case or court session until another date or time. In some jurisdictions, this is called a "continuance.
adjournment: a temporary postponement of the proceedings of a case until a specified future time
adjudicate: to hear or try and determine judicially
adversary: An opponent. The defendant is the plaintiff's adversary.
Adjournment:
The delay or postponement usually to another time of a meeting or action.
ADJOURNMENT. The dismissal by some court, legislative assembly, or properly authorized officer, of the business before them, either finally, which is called an adjournment sine die, without day; or, to meet again at another time appointed, ...
Adjournment
A temporary postponement of legal proceedings.
Advance decision ,also called advance directive, or a living will.
Adjournment: Postponement of a court session until another time or place.
Adjudication: A decision or sentence imposed by a judge.
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An adjournment to a date which is set to be "peremptory" means that ther matter will go ahead on that date with no further applications for adjournment to be granted.
The adjournment of a cause, case or hearing from one day to another is called a continuance, amd a record of same is entered in the record.
After the adjournment of the Moscow conference following six weeks of failed discussions with the Soviets regarding a potential German reconstruction, the United States concluded that a solution could not wait any longer.
adjourn, adjournment The act of discontinuing or postponing a proceeding until another time or place; the court is said to adjourn until tomorrow, or to grant an adjournment. Similar to continuance.
Continuance: Adjournment of the proceedings in a case from one day to another.
Corroborating evidence: Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it.
AdjournmentPostponement of a court hearing to another date. (see Remand)Administration Bond(see Bond)Administrator (Estate Trustee)A person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a person who has died without a will or the ...
Adjournment: Postponement of a hearing by a judge on whatever terms he sees fit.
Administrative law: Law which applies to hearings before quasi-judicial or administrative tribunals.
Meanwhile war broke out between Russia and Japan and there was again an adjournment.
Recess
A temporary adjournment or suspension of court proceedings.
Record
A transcript, or papers transmitted from lower court to an appellate court upon which the appellate court decides the appeal.
Term: Recess
Definition: A temporary adjournment or suspension of court proceedings.
Term: Record
Definition: A transcript, or papers transmitted from lower court to an appellate court upon which the appellate court decides the appeal.
indefinitely; literally, "without a date". Use in relation to adjournments of the Court or of a particular case for an indefinite period.
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recess
n. a break in a trial or other court proceedings or a legislative session until a certain date and time. Recess is not to be confused with "adjournment," which winds up the proceedings.
Continuance - The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in court.
Contract - An agreement between two or more persons to do or not to do a particular thing- a meeting of the minds with a consideration.
 See also: Law, Time, Proceeding, Court, Trial
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