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Definition of County sessions

County sessions
3. A count; an earl or lord. [Obs.] --Shak. County commissioners. See Commissioner. County corporate, a city or town having the privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. County palatine, a county distinguished by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but these powers are now abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester, and Durham. County rates, rates levied upon the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] County seat, a county town. [U.S.] County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.] County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

Meaning of County sessions from wikipedia

- The County Sessions House is a former courthouse in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It stands at the top of William Brown Street. It is adjacent to the...
- the seat of each county and county borough, and in numerous non-county boroughs which were entitled to hold their own quarter sessions, although some of...
- Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general...
- in 1889, London County Council inherited the Middle**** Sessions House, which was no longer in Middle****, and the Surrey County Sessions House, which was...
- William Steele Sessions (May 27, 1930 – June 12, 2020) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States...
- Peter Anderson Sessions (born March 22, 1955) is an American politician who serves in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 17th congressional...
- The Middle**** Quarter Sessions was the quarter session court for the county of Middle****, England. Membership was made up of the justices of the peace...
- until county councils were created for Middle**** and London in 1889. At that point the Middle**** county leaders had no further use for the Sessions House...
- towns and cities were made county boroughs, independent from the county councils. In counties where the quarter sessions had been held separately for...
- for Cheshire. A county's magistrates sat four times a year as the quarter sessions. For more serious cases judges visited each county twice a year for...