Prorogation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prorogation \Pro`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. prorogatio: cf. F.
     prorogation.]
     1. The act of counting in duration; prolongation. [Obs.]
        --South.
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     2. The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of
        Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command
        of the sovereign. [Eng.]
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     Note: After an adjournment all things continue as they were
           at the adjournment; whereas, after a prorogation, bill
           introduced and nut passed are as if they had never been
           begun at all. --Mozley & W.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prorogation
       n : discontinuing the meetings (of a legislative body) without
           dissolving it

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROROGATION. To put off to another time. It is generally applied to the 
  English parliament, and means the continuance of it from one day to another; 
  it differs from adjournment, which is a continuance of it from one day to 
  another in the same session. 1 Bl. Com. 186. 
       2. In the civil law, prorogation signifies the time given to do a thing 
  beyond the term prefixed. Dig. 2, 14, 27, 1. See Prolongation.