Petty sessions
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A justice's court of summary jurisdiction.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Session.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In English law. A special or petty session la sometimes kept in corporations and counties at large by a few justices, for dispatching smaller business in the neighborhood between the times of the general sessions; as for licensing alehouses, passing the accounts of the parish officers, etc.. Brown.
Defined under Session in Black's Law Dictionary.