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legislative session : a session of the U.S. Senate that is not an executive session ...
executive session
executive session : a closed session (as of the U.S. Senate) in which executive business (as consideration of appointments or ratification of treaties) is taken care of compare legislative session ...
Session
Session, connotes the sitting together of the legislative body for the transaction of business, Sarat Kar v. Orissa Legislative Assembly, AIR 1952 Ori 234.Session, is a period of time between the meetings of Parliament, whether after a propagation or a dissolution and its prorogation, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 231.Means a sitting together or meeting of a court, legislature or other deliberative body so that it can conduct business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1375....
legislative day
legislative day : a period of time during which a legislature is in session that commences with the opening of a daily session and ends with adjournment and that may last more than one calendar day ...
session
session : a meeting or series of meetings of a body (as a court or legislature) for the transaction of business ;also : the period between the first meeting of a legislative or judicial body and the final adjournment see also regular session, special session ...
special session
special session : an extraordinary session (as of a court or a legislative body) ...
legislative council
legislative council often cap L&C : a permanent committee chosen from both houses that meets between sessions of a state legislature to study problems and plan a legislative program ...
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
County sessions
County sessions. They are the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, and are held four times a year; by the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 22, they shall instead of being held at the times prescribed by s. 35 of the Law Terms Act, 1830, be held at such times within the period of 21 days immediately preceding or immediately following March 25th, June 24th, September 29th, December 25th.In London County (see S.R. & O., 1932, No. 418) Quarter Sessions shall be held at Newington January, April, July and October, and the first sessions held in each of these months shall be Geneal Quarter Sessions; Adjourned Quarter Sessions shall also be held in all months at intervals of not less than two weeks or more than three weeks after the beginning of each preceding Quarter Sessions or Adjourned Quarter Sessions. see QUARTER SESSIONS....
Middlesex Quarter Sessions
Middlesex Quarter Sessions. The are over which the Quarter Sessions for the County of Middlesex has jurisdiction is now much smaller than formerly, owing to the extension of the County of London, which has its own sessions (London Sessions). As a result, the Middlesex Sessions are no longer presided over by a paid judge and his assistant, but by an unpaid chairman and vice-chairman, as in other counties. Middlesex Sessions are held at the Guildhall, Westminster, and are not to be confused with London Sessions, which are presided over by a paid chairman and deputy-chairman, now held at the Sessions House....
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