单词 | court of session |
释义 | > as lemmascourt of session d. great or grand session(s: a court of justice formerly held half-yearly in each of the counties of Wales, presided over by itinerant judges forming a distinct body from the judges of assize in England. court of session: a court formerly exercising for the County Palatine of Chester a jurisdiction more or less corresponding to that of the courts of assize in the rest of England. Obsolete exc. Historical.Both these courts were abolished in 1830 by the Act 11 Geo. IV & 1 Will. IV, c. 70 §14. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of shire or part of shire > in Wales great or grand session(s1542 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 26 §4 There shalbe holden..Sessions twyse in everye yere in everye of the saide Shyres in..Wales:..the whiche Sessions shall be called the Kinges Greate Sessions in Wales. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4330/4 The Grand Jury, Justices of the Peace, and others.., met together at the Great Sessions holden for the said County [Pembroke]. 1730 Act 3 Geo. II c. 25 Preamb. Judges of the Great Sessions in Wales. 1730 Act 3 Geo. II c. 25 §9 Causes in the Grand Sessions in any County of Wales. 1730 Act 3 Geo. II c. 25 §9 At least eight Days before every Grand Sessions. §14 The Grand Session in Wales. 1899 W. R. Williams (title) The history of the Great Sessions in Wales 1542–1830. Court of Session b. Court of Session: the supreme civil tribunal of Scotland (otherwise called the College of Justice: see college n. 1c), established by Act of Parliament in 1532, and uniting in itself the powers and jurisdiction which had belonged to the Session of James I, to the Daily Council of James IV, and to the Lords Auditors of Parliament. The judges of this court are officially styled Lords of Council and Session, but in ordinary language Lords of Session. (Formerly the court was often spoken of as †the Session(s). ΚΠ 1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 665 Gevin and pronunceit be the Lordis of Counsale and Sessioun. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 441/2 in Chron. I This yeare [i.e. 1530] the Colledge court of Iustice called the Sessions, was instituted. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 8 The Colledge of Iustice, or as they call it, The Session. 1652 J. Lamont Diary 20 Jan. (1830) 37 Lords of Session and Counsell. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. ii. vi. 426 None shall be named..to be ordinary Lords of Session, but such who have been Advocates or principal Clerks of Session for the Space of Five Years. 1711 Act 10 Anne c. 13 §2 The Christmas Vacation of the Session or College of Justice. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。