Adjournal
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<A term applied in Scotch law and practice to the records of the criminal courts. The original records of criminal triala were called “bukis of adiornale,” or “hooks of adjournal,” few of which are now extant, An “act of adjournal” is an order of the court of juaticiary entered on its minules. Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diom dare. An adjournment is to appointuday or giveaday.
4 inst.27.
Hence the formula “eat sine die.”