Session

special session

special session : an extraordinary session (as of a court or a legislative body) ...

regular session

regular session : a session (as of a court) that is designated to happen at fixed intervals or specified times ...

Session, Great, of Wales, a Court which was abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c. 70; the proceedings now issue out of the Royal Courts of Justice, and two of the judges of the High Court hold the circuits in Wales and Cheshire, as in other English counties.The jurisdiction of the Great Session of Wales, which was first established by Henry VIII., was similar to that of Judges of Assize in England. Latterly it was exercised by two barristers, who sat for eighteen days only, into which period all the litigious business has to be compressed....

Session law

Session law, is the body of statutes enacted by a legislature during a particular annual or bennial session, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1376...

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....

Lords of Session

Lords of Session, the judges of the Court of Session in Scot land. Otherwise known as Senators of the College of Justice....

Lord President of the Court of Session

Lord President of the Court of Session. The SESSION, COURT OF. The office is united with that of Lord Justice General....

Brewster sessions

Brewster sessions. The special sessions of licensing justices annually held in the first 14 days of February for the grant of licenses for sale by retail of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS. Before the Licensing Act, 1902, these sessions were held under s. 1 of the Licensing Act, 1828, in August and September, and in Middlesex and Surrey in March....

Gaol Sessions

Gaol Sessions, a special sessions of county justices of the peace, constituted under 5 Geo 4, c. 12, for regulating matters connected with county gaols. See PRISONS....

Borough Sessions

Borough Sessions, courts established in boroughs under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882. They are held by the recorders of the respective boroughs once a quarter, or oftener if they think fit, and at times to be fixed by them. The Court has 'cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by the County Quarter Sessions, whose powers extend to all boroughs which may not have obtained a separate court by petition under s. 162 of the Act, 1882, and see also (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 33)....

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