quarter-sessions

• “There was no more conscientious magistrate in all the county than his lordship: he was never known to miss church or quarter-sessions; he was the strictest game-proprietor in all the Riding, and sent scores of poachers to Botany Bay.”

  Burlesques

• “Persian power — and now on the powers vested in recorders at quarter-sessions.”

  Lavengro

• “His Tory and High – Church principles were kept up by some occasional exercise at elections and quarter-sessions; but those respecting hereditary right were fallen into a sort of abeyance.”

  Waverley

• “There is not one in the town where he lives that he has not sued at the quarter-sessions.”

  The Coverley Papers

• “Yet some of the patriotic Irish journals have required, as an improvement in the law, that ejectment at quarter-sessions should be abolished, and that the landlord should, in every case, be sent to the superior courts for redress.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “The Irish landlord has the advantage of being able to bring his ejectment at the courts of quarter-sessions, and at less expense than it can be done in this country, provided the rent be under L50 a-year.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “The tenant obtained justice before; but now (with a still stronger case) he refuses to bring his action, which, in the quarter-sessions court, would have cost him”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “Now, any proceeding by distress, pending the progress of the ejectment, would have vitiated it and upset it; for the law does not allow two different modes of proceeding for the same debt at the same time; and in no courts is such scrupulous regard paid to the rights of the tenant as in the quarter-sessions courts.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “Now the landlord could only proceed by ejectment in the quarter-sessions 'court, or in the superior courts.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844

• “A case tried at Newbury quarter-sessions is fresh in the memory of many.”

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