Continuance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A holding together; continuity.

II. Continuance ·noun The entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.

III. Continuance ·noun Uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.

IV. Continuance ·noun The adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.

V. Continuance ·noun A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, ·etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.