Article 197 — Court may grant tinte and adjourn hearing

(I). The court may, if sufficient cause is shown, at any stage of the suit grant time to the parties or to an~ of them and adjourn the hearing of the suit for such time as is necessary to enable the pur- pose for which the adjournment is granted to be carried out. (2). The hearing shaH be adjourned where the making of the decision is conditional upon the completion of other proceedings, civil or criminal. (3). On adjourning the hearing the court shaH fix a day for the further hearing of the suit and may make such order as it thinks fit with respect to fhe costs occasioned by the adjournment: Provided that. when the hearing of evidence has once begun, the hearing of the suit shall. as far as possible, be continued from day to day until all the witnesses in attendance have been examined. (4). No adjournment shaH be granted when the pleaders ofthe parties fail to appear (5\. Where a hearing has been adjourned sine die, the court shaH issue new summonses to the parties and the witnesses.