7 - Adjournment of term on non-appearance of judge.

§  7.  Adjournment  of  term  on  non-appearance of judge. If a judge,  authorized to hold a term of a court, does not come to the  place  where  the  term  is  appointed  to  be  held,  or  to which it shall have been  adjourned by the judge, before four o'clock in the afternoon of the  day  so  appointed  or  of such adjourned day, the sheriff or clerk must then  open the term, and forthwith adjourn it, or again  adjourn  it,  as  the  case  may  be,  to  nine  o'clock in the morning of the next day. If the  judge attends by four o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of  the  term  as appointed or as adjourned by such judge, he must open the term;  otherwise the sheriff or the clerk must  adjourn  it  without  day.  If,  before  four  o'clock  of  the second day of the term as appointed or as  adjourned by the judge, the sheriff or the clerk receives from a  judge,  authorized  to hold the term, a written direction to adjourn the term to  a future day  certain,  he  must  adjourn  it  accordingly,  instead  of  adjourning  it as above prescribed. The direction must be entered in the  minutes as an order.