This Meeting Stands Adjourned

Adjournment means suspending a meeting after it has been duly commenced either indefinitely or so that it may be resumed at a future time and/or place fixed in that meeting or as decided later on.

A meeting may be adjourned automatically for want of a quorum or, where a quorum is present, either at the direction of the meeting or at the instance of the chairman.

Adjourning a meeting, concluding a meeting and postponing a meeting are different concepts.

To conclude a meeting is to bring a meeting to an end or to deem a meeting terminated once all the business on the agenda has been transacted, while to postpone means to defer or put off the meeting to a later time. A meeting is typically postponed before it has been actually held (by contrast, for valid adjournment, the holding of the original meeting at its scheduled time is necessary). Absent an express provision in the bye-laws, it is not possible to postpone or abandon a meeting once notice has been circulated.