Quarter Sessions

Definition: Quarter Sessions

1. A local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions.

Synonyms within Context: Quarter Sessions

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Tribunal	Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Quarter Sessions

Domain	Title
Books	Special statistical survey [prepared for the] Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1966-69: report (reference) Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1801-1820 (reference) Bute County, North Carolina: Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1767-1779 (reference) Grainger County, Tn., Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Record: Book, 1812-1816 (reference) Warren County, North Carolina Minutes to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Quarter Sessions

Language		Translations for "quarter sessions"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		seanca tremujopre. (various references)

German		vierteljährliche gerichtssitzungen. (various references)

Hungarian		negyedévi bírósági ülésszak. (various references)

Manx		quaiyl raieeoil. (various references)

Pig Latin		arterquay essionssay

Russian		суд квартальных сессий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tromesečne sudske sednice. (various references)

Spanish		audiencia trimestral. (various references)

Turkish		üç aylık aralıklarla çalışan ceza mahkemesi, üç ayda bir toplanan sulh mahkemesi. (various references)

Vietnamese		phiên to� họp h� ng quý. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Quarter Sessions

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-o-q-r-r-s-s-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: reassertions.
	-4 letters: equestrians, natriureses, questioners, reassertion, rustinesses, seriousness, sorrinesses, squatnesses.
	-5 letters: anestruses, artinesses, assertions, equestrian, oratresses, queasiness, questioner, requestors, rosinesses, saunterers, serrations, sournesses, squareness, sustainers, treasuries, unstresses.
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