RECESS

recess

recess (ree-ses), n. 1. A brief break in judicial proceedings (the court granted a fifteen-minute recess so the attorney and plaintiff could confer). Cf. CONTINUANCE(3). [Cases: Criminal Law 649; Trial 26. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1155; Trial§ 113.] 2. Parliamentary law. A motion that suspends but does not end a meeting, and that usu. provides

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