The master in chancery may adjourn court, in the absence of the chancellor, from day to day, for three (3) days in succession, or longer if, in the master in chancery's judgment, the interest of the public requires it, and then adjourn it to the court in course or to the time fixed by the chancellor for holding a special term.
Code 1858, § 4087 (deriv. Acts 1831, ch. 50, § 1); Shan., § 5901; Code 1932, § 10101; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-504.
Textbooks. Gibson's Suits in Chancery (7th ed., Inman), § 639.