If these were not at hand he might adjourn the case for their production, specifying a time up to six months.
Where a party fails to attend a hearing then the Committee may either adjourn the hearing or hold it in the party's absence.
He was also one of the members who refused to adjourn at the king's command till Sir John Eliot's resolutions had been passed.
Under pretext of grave news received from his father, and of an interview at Metz with his uncle, the emperor Charles IV., he begged the states to adjourn till the 3rd of November 1356.
A filibuster at the end of the 65th Congress caused the Senate to adjourn without confirming the appointment, but the President made him a " recess " appointee.