GO HENCE WITHOUT DAY

go hence without day.(Of a defendant to a lawsuit) to be finished with legal proceedings

without any further settings on the court’s calendar. • Thus, a defendant who “goes hence without

day” succeeds in getting a case finally resolved, usu. by dismissal. The phrase derives from the

Law French phrase aller sans jour, and over time defendants came to use it to request that the case

against them be dismissed without the necessity of a day in court. — Sometimes shortened to go

without day; without day. See SINE DIE. [Blacks Law 8^th]