When participants sit for a particular Meeting With specific Agenda but cannot for varies reasons e.g. want of quorum, lack of time, difference of in opinion, external interruptions etc, conclude the meeting, it is called adjourned until the next session. Generally it is the chairman of the meeting who declares the adjournment. But if any untoward situation, the meeting is automatically adjourned.
There are certain specialties for for an adjourned meeting. Those are
01. It is not a new meeting but merely a continuation of the original meeting.
02. For an adjourned meeting no notice is required when meeting is adjourned for less than 10 days.
03. No quorum is necessary. This means any number of attendants will form quorum.
04. An adjourned meeting can only discuss the items unresolved in the previous session.