- In
parliamentary procedure, an
adjournment ends a meeting. It
could be done
using a
motion to
adjourn. A time for
another meeting could be set
using the...
- In the
Westminster system, an
adjournment debate is a
debate on the motion, "That this
House do now
adjourn." In practice, this is a way of
enabling the...
- Some
board games, such as
chess and Go, use an
adjournment mechanism to
suspend the game in progress, or at
least did so
before the
advent of computer...
-
Adjournment sine die (from
Latin "without a day") is the
conclusion of a
meeting by a
deliberative ****embly, such as a
legislature or
organizational board...
- An Act of
Adjournal is
secondary legislation made by the High
Court of Justiciary, the
supreme criminal court of Scotland, to
regulate the proceedings...
- In the
United States,
conditional adjournment refers to the
authority given to the
Speaker of the
House of
Representatives and the
president pro tempore...
- In
criminal procedure, an
adjournment in
contemplation of
dismissal (ACD or ACOD)
allows a
court to
defer the
disposition of a defendant's case, with...
- A
Motion to
Adjourn is a 1921
American silent comedy film
directed by Roy
Clements and
starring Harry L. Rattenberry, Roy
Stewart and
Marjorie Daw. The...
- Act 1986. The
ability of the
speaker to
recall parliament during an
adjournment has
rendered prorogation almost obsolete, and the
procedure was last...
-
break in
November 2007.[citation needed] As a result, Reid did not
allow adjournments of more than
three days from then
until the end of the Bush presidency...
