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prorogation|prəʊrəʊˈgeɪʃən, prɒrəʊ-|
[ME. a. OF. prorogacion (1313 in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. -tion, or ad. L. prōrogātiōn-em, n. of action f. prōrogāre to prorogue.]
1. The action of lengthening in duration, or causing to last longer; extension of time; prolongation, protraction, further continuance. Now rare or Obs. exc. in Sc. Law.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 185 Thro the prorogacion of his lyfe by oon day. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 278 b, The senate would not geue ne graunte vnto Caesar prorogacion, that is to saie, a longer tyme in his dictature. 1647H. More Song of Soul Notes 136/1 Distance of life makes time, and the prorogation of life continueth time. 1746–7Act 20 Geo. II, c. 50 §21 By virtue of the prorogation of any lease or tack. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Prorogation, in judicial proceedings,..a prolongation of the time appointed for reporting a diligence, lodging a paper, or obtempering any other judicial order... Prorogation of a Lease is the extension of it. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 253 He himself can count on patriarchal prorogations of existence.
2. The action of proroguing an assembly, esp. Parliament; discontinuance of meetings until the following session, without dissolution.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 31/2 Your Parlement..by dyvers prorogations and adjornamentes, unto the xxi day of Januarii..contynued. 1586Burghley in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 13 We..did procure this prorogation for the other ij. causes. [Cf. prorogue v. 2, quot. 1586.] 1638Duke of Hamilton in H. Papers (Camden) 48 A great manie of them came to toune to haue protested against the prorogation [of the General Assembly]. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ii. 187 A prorogation is the continuance of the parliament from one session to another, as an adjournment is a continuation of the session from day to day. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, Bailie Craigdallie..who had advised the prorogation of their civic council to the present place and hour. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 271/1 The effect of a prorogation is at once to suspend all business until parliament may be summoned again. Ibid., A bill must be renewed after a prorogation, as if it had never been introduced, though the prorogation be for no more than a day. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. §768 III. 480–1 The distinction between adjournment and prorogation..is a modern distinction. The necessary adjournment from day to day, as well as the countermanding of a parliament called, and the longer intermission of the session, was known as prorogation. Ibid. note, The word ‘prorogation’ is constantly used for countermanding or delaying the day of meeting.
b. transf. The time during which Parliament stands prorogued; the interval between successive sessions.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 110 b, Duryng whiche prorogacion, the common people saied to the Burgesses, sirs, we heare saie you will graunt .iiii.s. of the pound, we aduise you to doo so that you maie go home. 1663Pepys Diary 18 Feb., This day the Parliament met again, after their long prorogation. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. ii. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 42 It would seem very extraordinary, if an inferiour court in England should take a matter out of the hands of the high court of parliament during a prorogation.
†3. The action of deferring to a later time; postponement. Obs. rare.
1658Phillips, Prorogation, a deferring, or putting off to another time. 1703Kelsey Serm. 73 He often obtained Pardon, or a Prorogation of the Punishment.
4. a. Sc. Law. The extension of the jurisdiction of a judge or court to causes which do not properly come within it: allowed in certain cases by consent of the parties.
1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v. Prorogation of Jurisdiction, In order to render prorogation effectual, the judge must have a jurisdiction susceptible of prorogation.
†b. gen. Extension. Obs. rare.
a1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 223 Goodwill is a kind of peace, but..with an extent or prorogation, a kind of peace peculiar to men which the other parts of the earth are not capable of. |