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avizandum
/ ˌæɪˈæԻə /
noun
Scots law Compare CAV
a judge's or court's decision to consider a case privately before giving judgment
a judge's or court's private consideration of a case before giving judgment
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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of avizandum1
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.’
To make avizandum is to remove a cause from the public court to the private consideration of the judge.
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.
The Ordinary not chusing to judge it at random Did with the minutes make avizandum.
"That's a matter we might well take to avizandum, I think."
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