Definition of continuance

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Continuance (n.) The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another..

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Miscontinuance :: Miscontinuance (n.) Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process..
Permansion :: Permansion (n.) Continuance.
Time-honored :: Time-honored (a.) Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance..
Continuance :: Continuance (n.) A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay..
Pending :: Pending (a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit..
Protract :: Protract (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
Thunder :: Thunder (n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance..
Inveteracy :: Inveteracy (n.) Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or of error..
Abode :: Abode (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
Continuance :: Continuance (n.) The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..
Desire :: Desire (v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy..
On :: On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on..
Remanency :: Remanency (a.) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
Cannonade :: Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance..
Residence :: Residence (n.) The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year..
Endurance :: Endurance (n.) A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Discontinuor :: Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2..
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