in general, denotes each sitting or assembly of a council, or other body.

Session of Parliament is the season or space from its meeting to its prorogation.

Kirk-Sessions, the name of a petty ecclesiastical court in Scotland.

Sessions for weights and measures. In London, four justices, from among the mayor, recorder, and aldermen, may hold a session to inquire into the offences of selling by false weights and measures, contrary to the statutes; and to receive indictments and punish offenders.

Court of Session. See SCOTLAND.

Court of Quarter-Sessions, an English court that must be held in every county once in every quarter of a year.