quarter sessions

He was chairman of quarter sessions from 1681 to January 1688.

He was for 35 years chairman of the Monmouthshire quarter sessions.

He served as chairman of the county's quarter sessions in Cumberland from 1818 until his death.

He began his practice on the home circuit and at the Surrey quarter sessions.

In 1886 he was elected chairman of quarter sessions.

The Quarter Sessions met to oversee the administration of the district and deal with legal cases.

Used to be held by some old solicitor, who died just before Quarter Sessions.

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

Courts of Quarter Sessions were also few in number and had no civil jurisdiction.

Father spoke with the same look on his face as when he asks important questions of witnesses at Quarter Sessions.

This was transacted at the quarter sessions, summoned four times a year by the lord lieutenant.

They took over the administrative functions of the unelected Quarter Sessions.

From 1871 to 1906 he was chairman of the Durham Quarter Sessions.

The parish priest was tried but eventually acquitted at the Quarter Sessions.

This offence could be tried at quarter sessions.

So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.

At the quarter sessions they were bailed to appear at the next assize.

The county council assumed the administrative responsibilities previously exercised by the county's justices in quarter sessions.

In addition any other highway could be declared a main road by the justices of the county in quarter sessions.

The reputation he acquired by led to his being appointed a few years afterwards perpetual chairman of the quarter sessions.

The powers and responsibilities transferred from the quarter sessions to the councils were enumerated in the Act.

In 1856 he was appointed to the bench of the quarter sessions, serving in that capacity until 1857.

Every Quarter Sessions had a clerk called the clerk of the peace.

This was done by means of a provisional order confirmed by the Quarter Sessions.

Furthermore, the increased "county business" could not be handled by the Quarter Sessions, nor was it appropriate to do so.