* Prorogation, Prorogated Jurisdiction *
PROROGATION - To put off to another time. It is generally applied to the English parliament, and means the continuance of it from one day to another; it differs from adjournment, which is a continuance of it from one day to another in the same session.
In the civil law, prorogation signifies the time given to do a thing beyond the term prefixed.
PROROGATED JURISDICTION - Scotch law. That jurisdiction, which, by the consent of the parties, is conferred upon a judge, who, without such consent, would be incompetent.
At common law, when a party is entitled to some privilege or exemption from jurisdiction, he may waive it, and then the jurisdiction is complete; but the consent cannot give jurisdiction.
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