“Continuance” is a term used in American legal English for the postponement or adjournment of legal proceedings. The proceedings continue when the continuance period comes to an end. Confusion can arise when using the verb “continue”, which, depending on the context, can have two opposing meanings: either to resume proceedings after an interruption, as in […]
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Legal English Shot – Please don’t revert to me
The English word “revert” never has the meaning “to contact a person again (about something already discussed)”. In normal parlance, to revert means to go back to an earlier subject, state, or practice after having departed from it. For example, people learning a foreign language sometimes revert to their native language when they can’t find […]
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