Definition of Court Of Quarter Sessions Of The Peace

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Court of quarter sessions of the peace
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A minor English court held quarterly in each county by two justices of the peace.

  • Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In American law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania, having power to try misdemeanors, and exercising certain functions of an administrative nature. There is one such court in each county of the state. Its sessions are, in general, held at the same time and by the same judges as the court of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery. See Brightly'8 Purd. Dig. pp. 26, 383, § 35, p. 1198, § L