LEGAL WORD
Adjournment
Legal term · Civil procedure
Adjournment
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Civil procedure
1 What it means
Postponing a hearing to a later date. The CPC limits the number of adjournments and allows costs.
2 Use it in a sentence
The court refused a fourth adjournment and imposed costs.
3 Make it stick
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