A postponement can also be called a postponement or stay, which means rescheduling something for later. You can request a postponement of your chemistry test, but there is no guarantee that you will receive it. When a baseball or tennis game rains down, the teams agree to a postponement and start as soon as possible. Postponement has a Latin root, postponere, “reconstitute, neglect or postpone”. For procrastination; postpone; Delay; continue; postpone; for example, when a hearing is postponed. Also to be placed after; to put something else below; for example, when a previous privilege is potted for any reason in a subsequent privilege; The word “postponement” when it comes to a court case is almost synonymous with “continuation,” except that the first word is generally preferred to describe an adjournment or a case on another day during the same term, and the second when the case moves to another term. See Underwood State, 76 MB. 639; State vs. Nathaniel, 5i> La. Ann. 558, 26 South.
1008. If you move something to a later date or time, it is a postponement. If a trial lawyer does not have all the information he needs, he can ask the judge to postpone him to the following week. n. the postponement of a trial, hearing or other court appearance date to a date later fixed by court order or by agreement (legal agreement) of the lawyers and approved by the court or (if permitted by local regulations) by the court clerk. In general, courts disapprove of too many sequelae and will not allow them unless there is a legitimate reason. Some states require the payment of fees for sequels to avoid delays. Powered by Black`s Law Dictionary, Free 2nd ed., and The Law Dictionary.