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petty sessions

petty sessions noun: a lower-level, local court in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and several Commonwealth countries that handled minor, summary offenses without a jury.

Noun

petty sessions pl (normally plural, singular petty session)

  1. (UK, historical, plural-normally) A lower-level, local court in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and several Commonwealth countries that handled minor, summary offenses without a jury.

Forms of petty sessions

singularpetty session

Questions about petty sessions

What does petty sessions mean?
Petty sessions means a lower-level, local court in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and several Commonwealth countries that handled minor, summary offenses without a jury.
What part of speech is petty sessions?
Petty sessions is a noun.

Words near petty sessions in the dictionary

  1. petty officers third class
  2. petty patent
  3. petty patents
  4. petty serjeanty
  5. petty session
  6. petty sessions
  7. petty spurge
  8. petty theft
  9. petty thefts
  10. petty treason
  11. petty whin

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