Adjournal
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch practice. A term applied to the records of criminal courts. Books of Adjournal (old Scotch, "Bukis of Adiornale") were the original records of criminal trials, most of which are now lost.
1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 225.
An act of adjournal is an order of the court of justiciary, entered on its minutes. Shaw, Eep., Appendix. ADJOURNAMENTUM EST AD DIEM dicere seu diem dare. An adjournment Is to appoint a day or give a day.
4 Inst. 27.
Hence the formula "eat sine die." ADJOURNATUR (Law Lat. from adjoumare, to adjourn). It is adjourned. A word with which the old reports very frequently conclude a case.
1 Ld. Eaym. 602; 1 Show. 7; 1 Leon. 88.