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A session as of some public body especially a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communications so called

of which must be specified in writing [s. 18(2)], there is (see s. 29) an appeal to quarter sessions. Holders of certain wine and beer licences, if first granted before 1869 (before which year wine and beer

Justices

statute dealing with the subject-matter of the offence. (3) To act, if county justices, as judges at Quarter Sessions, where their chairman presides and tries indictments with a jury, and such justices as attend the Quarter Sessions

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Prorogation

Prorogation, prolonging or putting off to another day. A prorogation is the continuance of the Parliament from one session to another, with the effect that bills, whatever stage they have reached, drop and have to be taken

Traversing Indictment

prosecuted shall be entitled to traverse or postpone the trial of any indictment found against him at any session of the peace, session of oyer and terminer, or session of gaol delivery; but if the Court upon

Recorder

Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the Crown, holding office during good behaviour, and

Epiphany

festival, otherwise called the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, observed on the 6th of January. Epiphany Quarter Sessions, formerly held in the first week after the Epiphany, are directed by the (English) Law Terms Act, 1830

Vagrants

house of correction to hard labour for not more than one month subject to an appeal to the sessions, viz.:-(1) Every person able to maintain himself or his family, and wilfully refusing or neglecting so to do,

County

are subdivided for purposes of parliamentary representation. As to the divisons of counties for holding petty and special sessions, see the (English) Division of Counties Act, 1828 (9 Geo. 4, c. 43), the (English) Petty Sessional Divisions

Municipal corporation

separate commission of the peace, excluding the jurisdiction of the county justices, and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, presided over by a 'recorder,' having the same jurisdiction in the borough has the justices in County Quarter

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