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quarter sessions

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1. (Law) (in England and Wales, formerly) a criminal court held four times a year before justices of the peace or a recorder, empowered to try all but the most serious offences and to hear appeals from petty sessions. Replaced in 1972 by crown courts. See also crown court Compare assizes
2. (Law) (in Scotland, formerly) a court held by justices of the peace four times a year, empowered to hear appeals from justice of the peace courts and to deal with some licensing matters: abolished in 1975
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Noun1.quarter sessions - a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
court, judicature, tribunal - an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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It seemed as if Mr Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter's good will towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with foresight; for the very first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton; and indeed, he had received a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent.
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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.
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So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.
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Pleas changed to guilty A young Cardiff mother, along with her sister and her sister's boyfriend, changed their pleas at Cardiff Quarter Sessions and admitted injecting a baby, aged 18 months with a drug.
1970 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2; A safe return for hijacked schoolgirl Vicky, a champion swimmer retires at 20 and much more was making the news 49 years ago
The five men were tried at the Leeds quarter sessions. The trial itself lasted nine hours and, somewhat unusually at the time, the defendants were legally represented.
The shocking story of the famous Great Cloth Robbery of Kirkheaton; THE FINAL PART OF A LOOK AT VICTORIAN POLICING IN HUDDERSFIELD, BY PROF DAVID TAYLOR, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
In the middle of the 18th century it was bought by lawyer John Sparrow, who became the first chairman of the Stafford quarter sessions, famously preventing a massacre of Stafford residents at Radford Bank.
It's one hall of a sale!
At a sitting of the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, George was tried for his thefts at Chester Castle on June 30.
How thief was caught in the act
Healey selects Lancashire for his case study not because of the number of overseers of the poor accounts, but rather because of the large number of petitions to the Lancashire Quarter Sessions that exist.
Jonathan Healey. The First Century of Welfare: Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire 1620-1730
After pleading guilty at North Shields Magistrates' Court the prisoner was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. He was given a six month sentence for this crime to be served concurrently with another six month term for an earlier burglary in Wallsend.
The crimes behind the faces; These early 20th century police mugshots were taken in North Shields. AlAN HAYWARD from Tyne & wear Archives talks about the fascinating images
After pleading guilty at North Shields Magistrates Court the prisoner was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions. He was given a six months sentence for this crime to be served concurrently with another six month term for an earlier burglary in Wallsend.
Bungling burglars who were brought to book in early 20th century Tyneside; Alan Hayward from Tyne and Wear Archives recalls some unfortunate North East criminals from the 1900s
Judge Morgan Hughes was a familiar face at Caernarfon Crown Court for 45 years, first as a barrister, deputy chairman of the old Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions, recorder and then a Crown court judge until retirement in 1998.
Tributes to former Old Bailey judge
Newark, 15th of October 1797: 6082: Tederick Jacob Serjeant." (4) In File 8, "Lists of those persons who attended the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the Home District (Michaelmas Term) in the Town (of) Newark, Province of Upper Canada on the 11th day of October 1796 and 36th Year of Our Lord King George the IIId of Great Britain, France & Ireland &c &c" it states: "6603: Tederick, Jacob Serjeant".
Sgt. Jacob Dittrick UE 1755-1828

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