"Was it adjournment or dismissal?"
"...before the court was to dismiss for lunch..."
This is a sentence in the Times of India (April 30, 2010) in its story HC unmoved by fiance's passionate pleas.
A court adjourns for the day, or for lunch, meaning the proceedings stop for a short time, for a few minutes to a few hours. A court can and does dismiss a case, bringing it to a final halt, not seeing any merit in carrying it for further arguments.
This is a good example of being carried away by jargon without understanding it.
Likewise, recently, the DNA referred to cemeteries in the headline when the story was all about crematoria, The first is a place where the dead or their ashes are buried and the second, a place where the dead are cremated. A dictionary could have helped.
-Mahesh Vijapurkar
This is a sentence in the Times of India (April 30, 2010) in its story HC unmoved by fiance's passionate pleas.
A court adjourns for the day, or for lunch, meaning the proceedings stop for a short time, for a few minutes to a few hours. A court can and does dismiss a case, bringing it to a final halt, not seeing any merit in carrying it for further arguments.
This is a good example of being carried away by jargon without understanding it.
Likewise, recently, the DNA referred to cemeteries in the headline when the story was all about crematoria, The first is a place where the dead or their ashes are buried and the second, a place where the dead are cremated. A dictionary could have helped.
-Mahesh Vijapurkar
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