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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Discontinuee :: Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance..
Abidance :: Abidance (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
Sequent :: Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Perpetuation :: Perpetuation (n.) The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance..
Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants..
Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Perseverance :: Perseverance (n.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism..
Inveterate :: Inveterate (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Durably :: Durably (adv.) In a lasting manner; with long continuance.
On :: On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on..
Continuance :: Continuance (n.) A holding together; continuity.
Persistency :: Persistency (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is remove.
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.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity..
Away :: Away (adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away..
Desuetude :: Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion..
Inveterate :: Inveterate (a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker..
Incessancy :: Incessancy (n.) The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
Continuance :: 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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