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    The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts that were traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England...
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  • A Sessions Court or even known as the Court of Sessions Judge is a court of law which exists in several Commonwealth countries. A Court of Session is the...
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  • Recognizance (category Law of Hong Kong)
    frequently used by courts of quarter sessions, for example they make up more than 70% of surviving records for the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions records. A recognizance...
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  • A court of general sessions was a type of court originally established as a colonial court of quarter sessions in the British North American colonies....
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  • Petty session (redirect from Petty sessions)
    Following the abolition of the courts of quarter sessions, which were also presided over by magistrates, the courts of petty sessions gradually became synonymous...
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  • of St. Louis County, Missouri is the chief executive officer of St. Louis County's government.   Republican   Democratic A. ^ The fractional terms of...
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    Pennsylvania, United States that was formed during the April Session (of the Court of Quarter Sessions) in 1814. The population was 1,469 at the 2020 census. According...
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    Family Compact (category Political history of Ontario)
    the Courts of Request. A Court of Quarter Sessions was held four times a year in each district composed of all the resident justices. The Quarter Sessions...
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    Quarter Sessions was the quarter session court for the county of Middlesex, England. Membership was made up of the justices of the peace. The quarter...
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    Henry Sadler (category High sheriffs of Wiltshire)
    Castle in 1576, Justice of the peace in the Court of quarter sessions for Wiltshire in 1592 and Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1595-6. Sadler entertained the...
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    churches. Salladasburg was incorporated as a borough by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania on January 12, 1884. Salladasburg...
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    Assizes (redirect from Court of Assize)
    (/əˈsaɪzɪz/), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished...
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    Berkshire County Council (category History of Berkshire)
    Councils to replace the Court of Quarter Sessions and elections in 1888 brought about the county council's launch. From A History of the first Berkshire County...
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    also appointed to the new county, and a single commission of peace and court of quarter sessions established. The county's population, as recorded at the...
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    St. Louis County, Missouri (category Regions of Greater St. Louis)
    earlier Spanish governors). This government, called the Court of Quarter Sessions, was composed of Charles Gratiot, Auguste Chouteau, Jacques Clamorgan,...
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  • by the courts of quarter sessions. From 1858 each district court judge had a concurrent appointment as chairman of the courts of quarter sessions for the...
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    of the county, and the offices of high and deputy steward were no longer filled. The separate court of quarter sessions, limited to three justices, continued...
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    Borough of Telford was incorporated by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Bucks County of November 10, 1886. A decade later, The Borough of West...
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    of Hopewell Township for the first almost seventy-five years from the formation of Hopewell in 1781. A petition was presented to the Court of Quarter...
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    Township on September 7, 1844, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lycoming County. It is named in honor of Joseph B. Anthony, who was a judge...
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    petition for incorporation as a borough to the Northumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions at the April term in 1858. In August Andrew J. Muffly was appointed...
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  • Thumbnail for Bastress Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
    December 13, 1854, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lycoming County. The township is named in honor of Solomon Bastress of Jersey Shore, who was...
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    Pennsylvania Clerk of Courts. Road Case No. 15, August Sessions 1806; Quarter Sessions Docket 4, Pages 16-17 (Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Montgomery...
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    interests be formed from Lycoming Township, and the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lycoming County formed Jackson Township in 1824. The township...
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    part of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area. Wolf Township was formed from part of Muncy Township by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace...
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    by the county Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace on February 10, 1878, from McIntyre Township. The formation was a result of a successful petition...
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  • counties of England and Wales." This court was abolished by section 2 of the Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836. The General Quarter Sessions, for the...
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    of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clinton Township was formed from part of Washington Township by the Court of Quarter...
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    Sussex (redirect from County of Sussex)
    combined for most meetings of the court of quarter sessions, a division which was reinforced when the administrative counties of East Sussex and West Sussex...
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    brothers of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp William Smeathers – well known frontiersman, Smeathers served on first grand jury of Court of Quarter Sessions at Hartford...
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