Sittings
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Is used in the English parlance of the courts much as session is in the United States. The sittings at nisi prius and in banc are, respectively, the session of the court for giving trials and for cases in error, &c. Sittings after term were sessions which were held in London and Middlesex, after the close of the respective terms, for the trial of issues of fact before a judge and jury, now superseded by new provisions of the judicature acts, as to London and Middlesex sittings. That the word sittings, as applied to courts, is equivalent to term, see Gird a.
State, 1 Oreg. 308.