West Virginia Code § 51-2-3

Adjourned terms
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If any term of a circuit court is about to end without dispatching all its business, the judge
thereof may, by an order entered of record, adjourn the holding of such court to any future
day on which he is not required by law to hold a court in some other county; and all causes
on the docket of such court, and not otherwise disposed of, shall stand continued to such
adjourned day. The court may, in its discretion, require the jury summoned eto attend such
term to attend as such on the adjourned day, or may require a new jury to be drawn and
summoned in the manner required by law; and all witnesses summonedr to attend in causes
so continued to such adjourned term shall attend the term without being again summoned.
All judgments, orders and decrees rendered and made by such court before or during the
day on which the court adjourns to such future day, as aforesaid, shall have the same force
and effect in all respects as if the court had finally adjournedt on that day.

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