quarter sessions in English

noun
1
(in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) a court of limited criminal and civil jurisdiction and of appeal, usually held quarterly in counties or boroughs, and replaced in 1972 by crown courts.
In these circumstances the case would be heard in the common law courts of assizes, quarter sessions , or petty sessions.

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1. It replaces the former quarter sessions.

2. The Assizes are held at Enniskillen, quarter sessions at Enniskillen and Newtownbutler

3. A summons was served on him to appear at the next Quarter sessions.

4. Disputes between parishes were settled by the justices of the peace at quarter sessions.

5. The court thus constituted exercises the former domestic, betting, gaming and licensing jurisdiction of quarter sessions.

6. • Early courts, in particular the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, served administrative as well as legal purposes.

7. Bastardy Recognizance - like a bail bond - the father is to appear at next Quarter Sessions and case continued until child born

8. The Bastardy/Affiliation Order was issued by the Justice of the Peace at the Petty Sessions or Quarter Sessions following an examination

9. 1891 Hansard's Parliamentary Debates Afterwards, Sir Eardly Wilmot had been appointed, from whom, on account of his long Chairmanship of quarter-sessions, much had reasonably been expected.

10. A visit to Reading or Abingdon twice a year, at Assizes or quarter sessions, which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddle-bags containing his wardrobe, a stay of a day or two at some country neighbour's, or an expedition to a county ball or the yeomanry review, made up the sum of the Brown locomotion in most years.