In practice. A continuance, by adjournment, of a regular term. Harris v. Gest, 4 ohio St. 473; Kiugs-ley v. Bagby, 2 Kan. App. 23, 41 Pac. 991. Distinguished from an “additional term,” which is a distinct term. ld. An adjourned term is a continuation of a previous or reg-ular term; it is tbe same term prolonged, and the power of the court over the business which has been done, and the entries made at the regular term, continues. Van Dyke v. State, 22 Ala. 57
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A putting off or post-lining of business or of a session until another tlme or place; the act of a court, leg-lslatlve body, public meetlng, or officer, by which the session or assembly is dissolved, either temporarily or finally, and the business in hand dismissed from consideration, either deflnltely or for an interval. If the adjournment is final, it is sald to be sine die
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L. Lat. It is adjourn-ed. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case. 1 Ld. Raym. 602; 1 8how. 7; 1 Leon. 88
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A summons taken out in the chambers of a judge, aud afterwards taken into court to be argued by counsel
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To put off; defer; postpone. To postpone action of a convened court or body until another time specified, or indefl-nitely, the lutter being usually called to adjourn sine die. Bispbam v. Tucker, 2 N. J. Law, 253
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A term applied in Scotch law and practlce 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 min-utes
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The aggregate of rules of procedure or practlce. As opposed to that body of law which the courts are es-tablished to administer, (called “substantive law,”) it means the rules according to which the substantive law is administered. That part of the law which provides a method for enforcing or maintaining rights, or obtaining redress for their invasion
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The word “adjoining,” in its etymological sense, means touching or contiguous, aa distinguished from lying near to or adjacent And the same meaning has been given to it when used in statutes. See Adjackkt
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Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the for-mer implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object Intervenes. People v. Keechler, 194 III. 235, 62 N. E. 525; Hanifen v. Armitage (C. C.) 117 Fed. 845; McDonald v. wilson, 59 Ind. 54; wormley v. Wright
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Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost, as a rec-ompense to the owner. Cowell
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In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage lnto a mine; tbe opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation in and along' a lode. Electro-Magnetic M. & D. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Colo. 204, 11 Pac. 80 ; Gray v. Truby, 6 Colo. 278
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L. Fr. without day. A com-mon term in the Year Books, implying final dismissal from court
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A waxy substance (chemically margarate of ammouium or ammonia-cal soap) formed by the decomposition of animal matter protected from the alr but subjected to moisture; in medical jurispru-dence, the substance into which a human cadaver is converted which has been buried for a long time in a saturated soil or has lain long in water
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In the civil law. To ap-ply; to employ; to exercise; to use. Adhi-bere diligentiam, to use care. Adhibcre vim, to employ force
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A term used in the laws of Holland for the application of property by an executor, wharton
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In Scotch law. The name of a form of action by which the mutual obligation of marriage may be enforced by either party. Bell. It corresponds to the English action for the restitution of conjugal rights
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Joining, leagued with, cleaving to; as, “adhering to the enemies of the United States.”
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In the civil law. To be pres-ent; the opposite of abesse. Calvin
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In the civil law. The welding together of iron; a species of
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Lat So, as. Adeo plene et in-tcgre, as fully and entirely. 10 Coke, 65
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Lat in the civil law. A revocation of a legacy; an ademption. Inst 2, 21, pr. where it was expressly transfer-red from one person to another. It was called translatio. Id. 2, 21,1; Dig. 34, 4
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The revocation, recalling, or cancellation of a legacy, according to the apparent intention of the testator, implied by the law from acts done by him in his life, though such acts do not amount to an ex-press revocation of it. Kenaday v. Slnnott, 179 U. S. 606, 21 Sup. Ct 233, 45 L. Ed. 339; Burnham v. Comfort, 108 N. Y. 535, 15 N. E. 710, 2 Am. St Rep. 462; Tanton v. Keller, 167 111. 129, 47 N. E. 376; Cowles v. Cowles, 56 Conn. 240, 13 Atl. 414
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In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or presi-dent judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from htiving authority over the judges of those places. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 4, 1. 1
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