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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...
- in 1889, London County Council inherited the Middle**** Sessions House, which was no longer in Middle****, and the Surrey County Sessions House, which was...
- Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general...
- 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...
- towns and cities were made county boroughs, independent from the county councils. In counties where the quarter sessions had been held separately for...
- 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...
- diet of paupers, inflicted fines and administered the law at petty sessions. The counties were initially used for judicial purposes, but began to take on...
- county town. In 1787 the Lancashire Quarter Sessions decreed that in ****ure the annual general sessions for transacting all business for the county at...
- County Hall, formerly the Old Sessions House, is a muni****l building in Sandling Road in Maidstone, Kent, England. The county hall, which is the headquarters...