avizandum

/ ˌævɪˈzændəm /

noun

1. Scots law Compare CAV
   1. a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
   2. a judge's or court's private consideration of a case before giving judgment
   3. the period during which judgment is delayed in these circumstances. A judge or court makes avizandum when time is needed to consider arguments or submissions made

Word History and Origins

Origin of avizandum¹

from Medieval Latin, from avizare to consider; see advise

Example Sentences

The blushing damsel replied that so important a proposal required time for consideration; and accordingly Mr. Mix left the room in order to smoke a pipe with her father, while she took the case to ‘avizandum.’

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To make avizandum is to remove a cause from the public court to the private consideration of the judge.

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To leave a thing in half lights, in compromise, to take it, as the legal phrase of the country of his ancestors has it, ad avizandum, was to Macaulay abhorrent and impossible.

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The Ordinary not chusing to judge it at random Did with the minutes make avizandum.

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"That's a matter we might well take to avizandum, I think."

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