quarter sessions
plural noun
: a former English local court with limited original and appellate criminal and sometimes civil jurisdiction and often administrative functions held quarterly usually by two justices of the peace in a county or by a recorder in a borough
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Critics have called for the office to be abolished and its functions picked up by the courts, in the same way that the position of clerk of quarter sessions was ended in 2010. 
Craig R. Mccoy, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
Craig R. Mccoy, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1538, in the meaning defined above
- Guarañoca
- guarañocas
- guard
- guard (against)
- guard against
- guard boat
- guard book
- guard brush
- guard cartridge
- guard cell
- guard chamber
- guard circle
- guard dog
- guard flag
- guard hair
- guard iron
- guard line
- guard lock
- guard mail
- guard mount
- guard mounting
- guard of honor
- guard of the standard
- guard pin
- guard report