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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

A meeting of two or more justices of the peace, held for a special purpose (such as the licensing of alehouses), either as required by statute, or when specially convoked, which can only be convened after notice to all the other magistrates of the division, to give them an opportunity of attending.

See Statute.