quarter sessions
plural nounDefinition of quarter sessions
: a former English local court with limited original and appellate criminal and sometimes civil jurisdiction and often administrative functions held quarterly usually by two justices of the peace in a county or by a recorder in a borough
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The first known use of quarter sessions was in 1538
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