QUARTER SESSIONS


Meaning of QUARTER SESSIONS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun plural ]

Date: 1566

: 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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.