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Quarter sessions   /kwˈɔrtər sˈɛʃənz/   Listen
Quarter sessions

noun
1.
A local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions.





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"Quarter sessions" Quotes from Famous Books



... horror he had been wont to express of the English squirearchy, 'whose arena is the quarter sessions;' and she remembered standing up for them, and declaring there was far more honest, sturdy, chivalrous maintenance of right and freedom in their history than in all his beloved Lombardic republics. ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... taken before Ra: Hall, esq. J.P., of William Wintershall and Henry Eaton, both of Clerkenwell, gentlemen, in the sum of fifty pounds each; "Upon condition that Antony Turner shall personally appear at the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Hicks Hall for the said County of Middlesex; for the unlawful maintaining of stage-plays and interludes at the Red Bull in St. John's Street, which house he affirms that they hire of the parishioners of Clerkenwell ...
— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams


Words linked to "Quarter sessions" :   court, judicature, law, tribunal, jurisprudence


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