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QUARTER SESSIONS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quarter sessions mean?
• QUARTER SESSIONS (noun)
The noun QUARTER SESSIONS has 1 sense:
1. a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
Familiarity information: QUARTER SESSIONS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("quarter sessions" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Context examples
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.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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