The clerk of the peace was formerly paid by fees which were fixed by quarter sessions, but he is now generally, if not in every case, paid by salary, the fees received by him being paid into the county fund.
Before the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, the only form of county government in England was that of the justices in quarter sessions (q.
Coffee-houses were all at that time subject to a licence, granted by the magistrates at quarter sessions.
We now have a view of the change in the law courts in Montreal: a yearly session of the king’s court and of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions held by the justices of the peace, and in the parishes, the bailiffs or constables.
In addition to the other two courts, Justices of the Peace were established at Quebec and Montreal who should hold quarter sessions.
Sidenote: Sir Thomas Wriothesley gives advice at a quarter sessionsin Hampshire.
Sir Thomas Wriothesley, who either accompanied the commission, or was in Hampshire independently of it, took advantage of a quarter sessions in that county to stimulate these symptoms of improvement a little further.
In the provincial districts it rests with the justices at quarter sessions.
They are directed to make an annual report to the general or quarter sessions of the state of the asylum.
A Court of Quarter Sessions in the district was also established.
See indictment of an Essex jury at quarter sessions in 1585 against one Glasscock who spoke lightly of the ceremony of baptism, and rent out of a prayer book certain leaves where the ministration of baptism was set forth.
Quarter Sessions deal with graver matters four times in the year, and about three times a year one or more of the king's judges comes to the county town, and Assizes are held for graver matters still.
There are some cases too grave or too complicated for the Court of Quarter Sessions to decide, and these have to stand over to the =Assizes=.
That led, we may imagine, to many disputes between parishes, and gave the court of Quarter Sessions a lot of work to do; for amongst the many things which Quarter Sessions had to attend to was the carrying out of the Poor-Laws.
Some offences are too grave for the borough or county magistrates to settle, and they have to be tried by a higher court of justice, which has greater powers than the Court of Petty Sessions, the Court of =Quarter Sessions=.
The old mode of exercising this power was by sending on to assizes indictments raising difficult questions which had been presented at quarter sessions.
As if all these boards were not sufficient to keep the district in good order, there is the Court of Quarter Sessions, which has jurisdiction in various details that the multitude of small bodies cannot touch.
They were chosen by the Justices of the Peace at quarter sessions, and were usually small gentry or well-to-do yeomen.
He was often the spokesman for the village in village concerns, such as too many alehouses, brought to the attention of justices at quarter sessions.
Assault cases were common in courts of assize and courts of quarter sessions.
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