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Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a day") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a day to reconvene. [1] The assembly can reconvene, either in its present form or a reconstituted form, if preexisting laws and rules provide for this.
A motion to adjourn is a privileged motion, unless it is qualified in any way (such as "adjourn at 10 p.m."), the time for adjourning is already established, or unless adjournment would dissolve the assembly (in these cases, it is a main motion). [2] The privileged motion to adjourn is used to end the meeting immediately without debate.
The new historical drama film Till hits theaters soon, which means you should get ready to feel your heart break. The film is based on the true story of activist Mamie Hill, whose 14-year-old son ...
The Constitution gives the president the power to adjourn Congress when the Senate and the House of Representatives disagree on whether they should leave town. Trump could invoke this power if the ...
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 the potential that the defendant's charge will be dismissed if the defendant does not engage in additional criminal conduct or other acts prohibited by the court as a condition of the ACD. [1]
Principal Magistrate Don So Man-lung adjourned the case till 24 January to allow time for further investigation. “In the meantime, you will stay in jail,” he told Mr Chapman.
A lame-duck session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor's term begins. The expression is now used not only for a special session called after a sine die adjournment, but also for any portion of a regular session that falls after an election.
Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, cries over her son’s casket at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, September 6, 1955. getty images. Patton was white and Black.