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Ajourner

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Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Fr. To summon. Ou n'ajournoit ]x>int par pairs, car les pairs ne pouvoient ajoumer leur seigneur; mats ils pouvoient ajoumer jtwwr leur seigneur; he could not summon by the peers, for the peers could not summon their lord; but they might summon for their lord. Esprit des Lois, liv. 28, c. 28. To adjoum, in the modem sense. Britt. c. 2, See Adjoum.