Also known as: adjourns · adjourned · adjourning · adjournment · adjournments · adjournatur
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To postpone or recess a convened meeting, hearing, or session to a later time or date.
Congress passes a revenue bill and sends it to the President. Ten days later Congress adjourns without the President having signed or returned the bill. The bill does not become law because the adjournment prevents its return.
One spouse denies that the marriage is irretrievably broken at the initial hearing. The court adjourns the matter for a conciliation conference and schedules the continued hearing between thirty and sixty days later. At the adjourned hearing the court determines whether the marriage is irretrievably broken.
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The House and Senate disagree on when to end the session. The President adjourns both houses to a date the President selects. The adjournment resolves the disagreement between the chambers.
Directors meet to consider a merger offer. After discussion they adjourn rather than recess the meeting without incorporating key conditions into the agreement. The adjournment leaves the offer acceptance incomplete.
A state constitutional convention reaches consensus on limited topics. Delegates adjourn the convention for two years to reconvene at the statutory time. The adjournment allows the next legislature to expand the convention's powers.
Defense counsel learns of an unfulfilled plea promise at the sentencing hearing. Counsel seeks to adjourn the hearing to prepare proof of the promise. The adjournment request allows time to address the breach before sentencing proceeds.
The bill does not become law when Congress adjourns in a manner that prevents the President from returning it with objections.
The court may adjourn the hearing for a conciliation conference and must schedule the continued hearing not fewer than thirty nor more than sixty days later.
Yes. The President may adjourn the houses to a time the President thinks proper when they disagree about the time of adjournment.
Adjourning rather than recessing a meeting without incorporating conditions into an agreement can weaken the board's position in subsequent litigation over the transaction.
Adjourning a convention for two years preserves the possibility that a later legislature may broaden the convention's powers before it reconvenes.
Counsel may request adjournment to prepare proof that the prosecution breached a plea promise before the court imposes sentence.
…again permits the logical inference that his testimony would not have been helpful to them. The further fact that the directors adjourned, rather than recessed, the meeting without incorporating in the Agreement these important "conditions" further weakens the defendants' position. As has been noted, nothing in the Board's…