Sessions

A sitting of justices in court, most commonly for the trial of criminal cases. The title of several courts, Enghsh and American.

In English law

Sessions of the peace: a sitting of the justices of the peace for the execution of duties confided to them by their commission, and by charter or statute. They are a petty or petit session, which is a sitting of one or more justices for the summary trial of minor offenses and for other purposes; a special session, which is a for the transaction of some special general sessions of the peace, which is a court of record held before two or more justices, whereof one is of the quorum, in execution of the general authority given by the commission of the peace and certain acts of parliament; the general quarter sessions of the peace, which is a court of record held in every county once in every quarter of a year, before two or more justices of the peace, one of whom must be of the quorum, for the trial of misdemeanors and lesser felonies.