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Quarter Sessions, the sittings of the whole body of the justices of the peace in a county, and of a recorder in a borough, having a separate Court of quarter sessions, four times in each year, or oftener, to try certain indictable offences, and hear appeals from petty sessions. The holding of quarter sessions can be dispensed with or the time for holding them varied within certain limits by virtue of the Assizes and Quarter Sessions Act, 1908, as amended by the Crim. Justice Act, 1925; see ss. 18-23 and 1st Sched. Where by statute the decision of the Quarter Sessions is final, there is no power to state a case for the opinion of the High Court, Kydd v. Liverpool Watch Committee, 1908 AC 327. See SESSIONS OF THE PLACE....
Quarter-days
Quarter-days, the days which begin the four quarters of the year, viz., the 25th of March, or Lady-day; the 24th of June, or Midsummer-day; the 29th of September, or Michaelmas-day; and the 25th of December, or Christmas-day. The half-quarter days are February 8, May 9, August 11, and November 11. The Scottish quarter days are February 2, May 15, August 1, and November 11. In Northern Ireland the quarter-days are the same as for England....
Quarter saw
To saw a log into quarters specif to saw into quarters and then into boards as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously...
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....
Quartering traitors
Quartering traitors. The judgment for high treason, as prescribed by 54 Geo. 3, c. 146, s. 1, was that the head of the person after death by hanging should be severed from his body, and the body, divided into four quarters, should be disposed of as the sovereign should think fit; but this portion of the Act is repealed by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, s. 31....
Quarters of coverage
Quarters of coverage, means the number of quarterly payments made by a person into the social security fund as a basis for determining the person's entitlement to benefits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1257....
Quarter
One of four equal parts into which anything is divided or is regarded as divided a fourth part or portion as a quarter of a dollar of a pound of a yard of an hour etc...
Quartered
Divided into four equal parts or quarters separated into four parts or regions...
Quarterly
Containing or consisting of a fourth part as quarterly seasons...
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered. See TREASON....
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