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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



... Wellinborrow in one parish 1169 persons that receive alms, as the Officers have made it appear at the Quarter Sessions last. We have made our case known to the Justices; the Justices have given order that the Town should raise a stock to set us on work, and that the Hundred should be enjoyned to assist them. But as yet we see nothing is done, nor any man that goeth about it. We have spent all ...
— The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens
... represented the force of the clans as about 22,000 claymores, half Whig (the extreme north and the Campbells), half Jacobite. The commandants of forts should have independent companies: cavalry should be quartered between Inverness and Perth, and Quarter Sessions should be held at Fort William and Ruthven in Badenoch. In 1725 Wade disarmed Seaforth's clan, the Mackenzies, easily, for Seaforth, then in exile, was on bad terms with James, and wished to come home with a pardon. Glengarry, ...
— A Short History of Scotland • Andrew Lang


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


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