Sittings

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; as a sitting in banc. 3 Steph. Comm. 423 The holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the judges of a superior court, instead of the ordinary nisi prius judge. 3 Steph. Comm. 422.

— Sittings after term. Sittings in bane after term were held by authority of the St. 1 & 2 Viet. c. 32. The courts were at liberty to transact business at their sittings as in term-time, but the custom was to dispose only of cases standing for argument or judgment. Wharton.

— Sittings in hank or banc. The sessions of a court, with the full bench present, for the purpose of determining matters of law argued before them.

— Sittings in camera. See Chambers.

The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; the holding of a court of nisi prius by one or more of the

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and Middlesex, after the close of the respective terms, for the trial of issues of fact before a judge and jury, now superseded by new provisions of the judicature acts, as to London and Middlesex sittings.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.