adjournal (ajernal)

[ We run our lives out in adjournments from time to time. L'Estrange. 2. The act of discontinuing a meeting of a public or private body or the transaction of any busine until a fixed date or indefinitely.3. The period during which a public body adjourns its sittings: as, during an adjournment of six weeks. - Adjournment in eyre, in old Eng. law, the appointment by the justices in eyre, or circuit judges, of a day for future se ion. Syn. Adjournment, Rece , Prorogation, Di olution. Adjournment is the act by which an a embly suspends its se ion in virtue of authority inherent in itself; it may be also the time or interval pension of suspension such suspension. during A rece the is per foto mary a customary su us, recognized or legal holidays: as, the Easter rece ; a rece for Washington's birthday. Rece is also popularly used for a brief suspension of busine for any reason: as, it was agreed that there be a rece of ten minutes. prorogation is the adjournment of the sittings legislative body at the instance of the authority which called it together, as the sovereign; during a prorogation it can hold no sittings, but in order to resume busine must be again summoned: the close of a se ion of the British Parliament is called a prorogation. Di olution is the act by which the body, as such, is broken up, and its members are finally discharged from their duties. The United States House of Representatives di olves every two years at a time fixed by law, but the Senate has a continuous life, and therefore adjourns from one Congre to another. The di olution of the British Parliament nece itates a new election; the di olution of the United States House of Representatives is provided for by law, an election being previously held. pp. adjudged,