Rooms in a hotel that have no connecting passages but are next to each other.

An adjournment is to appoint a day or give a day. 4 Inst. 27. Hence the formula “cat sine die.”

To put off; defer ; postpone. To postpone action of a convened court or body until another time specified, or indefinitely, the latter being usually called to adjourn sine die. […]

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,” […]

L. Lat. It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. (>02; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. S8.

A summons taken out in the chambers of a judge, and afterwards taken into court to be argued by counsel.

In practice . A continuance , by adjournment , of a regular term. Harris v. Gest, 4 Ohio St. 473; Kings- ley v. Bagby, 2 Kan App. 23, 41 Pac. […]

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 […]

A further day appointed by the judges at the regular sittings at nisi prius to try issue of fact not then ready for trial.

In English practice. A day appointed some days before the end of the term at which matters left undone on the aftinnance day are finished. 2 Tidd, I’r. 1170.

The appointment of a day when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Cowell; Spelman.

The act of suspending a trial or a hearing without fixing another date for the next session. It is a Latin phrase.

To pass upon judicially; to decide, settle, or decree; to sentence or condemn. Webb v. Bid well, 15 Minn. 479. (Gil. 394;) Western Assur. Co. v. Klein, 48 Neb. 904, […]

In Canadian law. A purchaser at a sheriff’s sale. See 1 Low. Can. 241; 10 Low. Can. 325.

To settle in the exercise of judicial authority . To determine finally. Synonymous with adjudge in its strictest sense. United States v. Irwin, 127 U. S. 125, 8 Sup. Ct. […]

In French and civil law. The purchaser at a judicial sale. Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 109S, 0 South. 793.

In the civil law . An adjudication . The judgment of the court that the subject-matter is the property of one of the litigants; confirmation of title by judgment. Mackeld. […]

The giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree in a cause; also the judgment given. The term is principally used in bankruptcy proceedings , the adjudication being the order which […]

When a debtor’s heir apparent renounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree cwjuitiunis causa, the purpose of which is that the amount o

See BANKRUPTCY.

An action by a grantee against his grantor to compel him to complete the title.

The judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction , that a person against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed, or who has filed his voluntary petition , […]

When a court decides that evidence presented proves the allegations during a trial.

A field where increased face value is recorded. This is now a payable bond due to the increase.

In the civil law . Adjunction ; a species of acccssio, whereby two things belonging to different proprietors are brought into firm connection with each other; sucli its interweaving, (intcrtextura;) […]