Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
The grant of adjournment is a matter within the discretion of the Court. The Court is not ordinarily bound to grant an adjournment and, before granting it, should usually require reasons to be stated unless it makes an adjournment of its own motion. Adjournments are sometimes granted by Civil Judges to the plaintiff or defendant merely because the other side does not object with the result that the duration of the suit in which such adjournments are granted is unduly and unnecessarily protracted. Such a practice is deprecated.