(705 ILCS 5/5) (from Ch. 37, par. 10)

Sec. 5. If the said supreme court shall not sit in any term, or shall not continue to sit the whole term, or before the end of the term shall not have heard and determined all matters and causes depending in said courts, all matters and causes depending and undetermined shall stand continued until the next succeeding term.

(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 327.)