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    The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts that were traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England...
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  • A Sessions Court or even known as the Court of Sessions Judge is a court of law which exists in several Commonwealth countries. A Court of Session is the...
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  • A court of general sessions was a type of court originally established as a colonial court of quarter sessions in the British North American colonies....
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  • Recognizance (category Law of Hong Kong)
    frequently used by courts of quarter sessions, for example they make up more than 70% of surviving records for the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions records. A recognizance...
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  • Petty session (redirect from Petty sessions)
    Following the abolition of the courts of quarter sessions, which were also presided over by magistrates, the courts of petty sessions gradually became synonymous...
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  • of St. Louis County, Missouri is the chief executive officer of St. Louis County's government.   Republican   Democratic A. ^ The fractional terms of...
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    Family Compact (category Political history of Ontario)
    the Courts of Request. A Court of Quarter Sessions was held four times a year in each district composed of all the resident justices. The Quarter Sessions...
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    A sessions house in the United Kingdom was historically a courthouse that served as a dedicated court of quarter sessions, where criminal trials were...
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    replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984. It was transmitted in the early afternoon. A court case in the...
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    forms of administrative function have been based on them. These have included the areas of parliamentary constituencies, the court of quarter sessions, the...
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