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(3) To act, if county justices, as judges at Quarter Sessions, where their chairman presides and tries indictments with a jury,

the trial of any indictment found against him at any session of the peace, session of oyer and terminer, or session

A prorogation is the continuance of the Parliament from one session to another, with the effect that bills, whatever stage they

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Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by

of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in

to the divisons of counties for holding petty and special sessions, see the (English) Division of Counties Act, 1828 (9 Geo.

the Gentiles, observed on the 6th of January. Epiphany Quarter Sessions, formerly held in the first week after the Epiphany, are

more than one month subject to an appeal to the sessions, viz.:-(1) Every person able to maintain himself or his family,

(English) Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, c. 59), from the Petty Sessions to Quarter Sessions, where the appeal is by way of

(a) a court of assize or a court of quarter sessions before which any indictable offence is prosecuted or tried, and

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