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The Quarter Sessions also had some limited civil jurisdiction, and until the Local Government Act 1888 created elected county councils, also had important administrative functions in their respective counties.
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Furthermore, the increased " county business " could not be handled by the Quarter Sessions, nor was it appropriate to do so.
** Translation of Saint Thomas, one of four days in the year on which Quarter Sessions sat.
Suffolk was divided into separate Quarter Sessions divisions.
* Quarter Sessions, a periodic court formerly held in counties of England and Wales
A Court of Quarter Sessions was held four times a year in each district to oversee the administration of the district and deal with legal cases.
The constable would have been present in court at Shire Hall when many of these cases came before the Quarter Sessions or Assizes.
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 abolished the County Court in the Irish Free State and transferred its jurisdiction ( together with that of Quarter Sessions ) to the Circuit Court.
* William Smeathers well known frontiersman, Smeathers served on first grand jury of Court of Quarter Sessions at Hartford, 1803 ; credited as the first settler of Yellow Banks, now present day Owensboro, KY and cited on Kentucky historical marker # 1548 in Hartford, KY.
William Yost serving as North Braddock's attorney petitioned the Quarter Sessions of Allegheny County that Shady Park and Wolftown would join as one town, also incorporating Braddock's Field.
Judge Kennedy of the Quarter Sessions Court of Allegheny County made the ruling and ordered the decree for the new borough.
Mahanoy City, originally a part of Mahanoy township was settled in 1859 and incorporated as a borough by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Schuylkill County on December 16, 1863.
Springville Township is a township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States that was formed during the April Session ( of the Court of Quarter Sessions ) in 1814.
A petition was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions in November of 1854, requesting a division of the Hopewell Township.
As the town progressed, the residents felt themselves restricted by the Act of 1830 and petitioned Westmoreland County Court of Quarter Sessions to become subject to the Act of April 3, 1851.
The present site of Paris was selected by five commissioners appointed to the task at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County.
The 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 Telford was incorporated by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery County of December 27, 1897.
The parish priest was tried but eventually acquitted at the Quarter Sessions.
In the same year he left Cambridge, he met and shortly afterwards married Miss Louisa Adelaide Edlin ( b. 1830 or 1831 ), sister of Judge Sir Peter Edlin, later chairman of the London Quarter Sessions.
In 1889, under the Local Government Act 1888, a county council was created for Westmorland, taking functions from the Quarter Sessions.
Following the 1837 Act the Isle maintained separate Quarter Sessions, and formed its own constabulary.
The persecution even extended to Aberdaron, and in 1657, Gwen Griffiths of Y Rhiw was summoned to the Quarter Sessions as a " papist ".
It replaced the Assizes whereby High Court judges would periodically travel around the country hearing cases, and Quarter Sessions which were periodic county courts.
On March 20, 1845, a petition to form a new township from portions of Ross and Indiana townships was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions.
Until the introduction of elected county councils in the 19th century, JPs, in Quarter Sessions, also administered the county at a local level.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
For example, the modern Appaloosa must have at least one Appaloosa parent, but may also have a Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, or Arabian parent so long as the offspring exhibits appropriate color characteristics.
He also is mentioned in Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of UNIX.
The two protagonists of NO Quarter, Maestro and Bone, also appear as minor characters in the Dragons novels.
The Yellowstone National Park Quarter also features a bison standing next to a geyser.
* the quarter of Roermond, also called the Overkwartier ( Upper Quarter ) or Upper Guelders-upstream on both sides of the Maas, comprising the town of Geldern as well as Erkelenz, Goch, Nieuwstadt, Venlo and Straelen ;
He also visited Montmartre and the Latin Quarter " and was happy just breathing Parisian air.
Au Lapin Agile also was popular with questionable Montmartre characters including pimps, eccentrics, simple down-and-outers, a contingent of local anarchists, as well as with students from the Latin Quarter, all mixed with a sprinkling of well-heeled bourgeois out on a lark.
The club also took part in the Football League Trophy for the first-ever time and, after defeating Carlisle United and Blackpool in the early rounds, were knocked out by Doncaster Rovers in the Area Quarter Finals.
These settlers ( many of whom intended to stay only temporarily ) were generally confined to the German Quarter in Moscow ( which also included Dutch, British and other western or northern European settlers whom the Russians came to indiscriminately refer to as " Germans ").
They also have more Type IIb fibers, which allow the Quarter Horse to accelerate rapidly.
AQHA also issues a " Racing Register of Merit " which allows a horse to race on Quarter Horse tracks, but not be considered a Quarter Horse for breeding purposes ( unless other requirements are met ).
The Western Wall refers not only to the exposed section facing a large plaza in the Jewish Quarter, but also to the sections concealed behind structures running along the whole length of the Temple Mount, such as the Little Western Wall – a 25 ft ( 8 m ) section in the Muslim Quarter.
These were also the dates of the Quarter Days observed in northern England until the 18th century.
Latin Quarter may also refer to:
Moses also developed a estate around Russell Pond in South Quarter, where he raised both award-winning apples and prized hunting dogs.
Informally the name also refers to a larger district, the Monte Carlo Quarter ( corresponding to the former municipality of Monte Carlo ), which besides Monte Carlo / Spélagues also includes the wards of La Rousse / Saint Roman, Larvotto / Bas Moulins, and Saint Michel.
Factory also opened a bar ( The Dry Bar, FAC 201 ) and a shop ( The Area, FAC 281 ) in the Northern Quarter of Manchester.
He appeared on at least seventy-five radio broadcasts ( many with his brother ), as a member of Nathaniel Shilkret's orchestra on programs such as the 1932 program, " The Music That Satisfies ," also known as the Chesterfield Quarter Hour.
* Canning Street in Liverpool is named after George Canning ; the surrounding Canning neighbourhood, also known as the " Georgian Quarter ," derives its name from the street.
The Florin or Double Leopard was an attempt in 1344 by English king Edward III to produce a gold coinage suitable for use in Europe as well as in England ( see also Half Florin or Leopard and Quarter Florin or Helm ).
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