Adjournment

A puiting 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 session or assembly is dissolved, either temporarily or finally, and the business in hand dismissed from consideration, either definitively or for anintervai. Ifthe adjournment is final, it is said to be sine die. In the civillaw. A calling into court; a summoning at an appointed time. Du Cange.