QUARTER SESSIONS
Dictionary entry overview: What does quarter sessions mean? • QUARTER SESSIONS (noun)
The noun QUARTER SESSIONS has 1 sense:
1. a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
Familiarity information: QUARTER SESSIONS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• QUARTER SESSIONS (noun)
Meaning:
A local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("quarter sessions" is a kind of...):
court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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