Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
quarter session.
1. English law. The meetings held four times a year by a county's justices of the peace to transact business, including trying certain criminal and civil matters as specified by statute. ( The quarter sessions were abolished in 1971 and replaced by the Crown Court system. 2. Scots law. A meeting formerly held four times a year by the justices to review criminal sentences. -Abbr. Q.S.