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Journal articles on the topic "Courts of quarter sessions of the peace"

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Hawkins, John. "A Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex. delivered At the General Quarter Session of the Peace, holden at Hick's Hall in the said County, on Monday the Eleventh Day of September, 1780." Camden Fourth Series 43 (July 1992): 431–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s006869050000177x.

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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace holden at HICK's HALL, in Saint-John-Street, in and for the County aforesaid, on Monday the Eleventh Day of September 1780, before the Reverend Sir George Booth, Baronet, Thomas Cogan, William Gregson, George Alcock, Esquires, and others their Fellows, Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace in and for the said County.It is unanimously resolved and ordered, That the Thanks of this Court be, and the same are hereby returned to Sir JOHN HAWKINS, Knt. Chairman of die Sessions of die Peace for this County, for his Charge delivered to the Grand Jury, at die Opening of diis Session. And the Court doth desire, dial he will be pleased to cause the same to be printed and published as soon as conveniendy may be. And it is further ordered, That Sir JOHN HAWKINS have a copy of this order, and diat the Clerk of the Peace do attend him dierewith immediately.
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Landau, Norma. "Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions." Law and History Review 17, no. 3 (1999): 507–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/744380.

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In the early modern era, the business of England's criminal courts was founded upon charges brought and prosecuted by private individuals. And, as the English realized, private prosecutors posed a problem: how could the English ensure that private individuals would spend their own time and their own money in prosecuting an offender who had committed an offense against the peace of the realm? Parliament's solution was to proffer the carrot: sixteenth-century statute decreed that his prosecution of the thief was, in itself, action sufficient for the owner of stolen goods to recover those goods, while from 1692, statutes offered rewards to successful prosecutors of highway robbers, burglars, coiners, and other specified offenders. In contrast, England's magistrates wielded the stick, binding a plaintiff bringing an accusation of felony to prosecute an indictment against the alleged felon. As a result, private prosecutors of major offenses were both bribed and compelled to prosecute. Private prosecutors of more minor offenses were neither bribed nor compelled to prosecute, and yet they did, nonetheless, prosecute indictments. Why?
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Shoemaker, Robert B. "The London “Mob” in the Early Eighteenth Century." Journal of British Studies 26, no. 3 (1987): 273–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385891.

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Shortened from the Latin phrasemobile vulgus(the movable or excitable crowd), “the mob” was first used to denote rioters in London during the Exclusion Crisis (1678–81). The term gradually entered the language Londoners used to describe disorder over the next few decades; justices of the peace did not commonly use it to refer to riots in the Quarter Sessions court records until the first decade of the eighteenth century. By 1721, 44 percent of the rioters who were bound over by recognizance to appear at the Middlesex Quarter Sessions were accused of raising, or participating in, a mob. Concurrently, the total number of recognizances for riot in urban Middlesex increased 520 percent between the 1660s and the early 1720s (table 1). These changes in the frequency and the language of London rioting recorded in the Middlesex court records around the turn of the eighteenth century raise several questions. Did the fundamental character of rioting in London also change? How (and when) did rioting become such a common occurrence on London's streets? What was the relation between riots prosecuted at Quarter Sessions and the larger, primarily political disturbances of the period that were first studied by George Rudé? How does urban rioting as a social phenomenon compare with rural riots such as food riots, riots against enclosures, and ridings, which have also been the subject of considerable recent research? What are the implications of the existence of widespread collective disorder for our understanding of social relations in London during a time of rapid population growth and socioeconomic change?
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Knt, John Fielding. "A Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury, at the General Quarter Session of the Peace; Held at Guildhall, Westminster; On Wednesday, April 6th, 1763." Camden Fourth Series 43 (July 1992): 389–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068690500001732.

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London:Printed for Charles Marsh, at Cicero's Head, Charing-Cross. MDCCLXIII.To the Earl of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, one of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Middlesex, and City and Liberty of Westminster.My Lord,As the following Charge is published at the unanimous request of the magistrates of the city and liberty of Westminster, present at the last quarter sessions held for the said city and liberty at Guild-hall, as well as that of the Grand Jury, to whom it was delivered, from their polite opinion, that it might be useful to mankind, methinks I feel their consent co-operating with my own inclinations, to dedicate die first fruits, even of a [ii] supposed advantage, arising from Guild-hall in Westminster, to your Lordship; as the origin and present existence of that court-house, so convenient and beneficial to this city and liberty, has been owing to your Lorship's public spirit and generosity. And I flatter myself, that its farther establishment will be much indebted to your care and attention.
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Corsellis, Nicholas. "A Charge by the Chairman to the Grand-Jury, General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the County of ESSEX at Chelmsford, July 10 1705." Camden Fourth Series 43 (July 1992): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068690500001483.

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Being desired by the Grand-Jury, several of the Justices of the Peace and Gentlemen of the County of Essex, to print the Charge I delivered at the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, held at Chelmsford the 10th of July 1705, I rather chose to expose my self to the Censure of some People than refuse their Request, and have accordingly printed the same, and set my Name to it; which is as follows.
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Witton, Richard. "A Charge to the Grand-Jury at the Quarter - Sessions Held at Barnsley in Yorkshire, The Fifteenth Day of October, 1741." Camden Fourth Series 43 (July 1992): 319–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068690500001689.

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I find by Bracton, and Other the oldest Books in the Law, That the Justices, upon holding their several Courts of Sessions, did deliver in Writing to the several Grand Inquests certain Articles of Heads of Inquiry, which were commonly stilled Capitula Placitorum Corornæ; which were as Rules or Directions how they were to proceed in their Inquiries, for the better Performance of their Duty and Office.
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Ryder, Samuel. "The Charge to the Grand-Jury of the City and Liberty of Westminster At the General Quarter-Session of the Peace, held in Westminster-Hall, October 6. 1725." Camden Fourth Series 43 (July 1992): 183–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068690500001586.

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THE short notice I had of the Honour designed me on this Occasion, together with the Misfortune of a Mind weakened and impaired by a long Infirmity of Body, might in reason have excused me from the Task I am now undertaking: But when I consider the Oath ye have taken, to present all such Matters as shall be given ye in Charge; it seems to me to imply an Obligation on the Court to give ye matters in Charge: and therefore I shall endeavour to [6] acquit my self of that Duty in the best manner that, under such disadvantages, I am able: And that ye may the better retain what I deliver, will (by way of Method) reduced the Matters which I shall recommend to your Enquiry, to three heads.
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Barnard, T. C. "Lawyers and the law in later seventeenth-century Ireland." Irish Historical Studies 28, no. 111 (1993): 256–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400011044.

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In seventeenth-century Ireland the law increasingly defined and regulated relationships: between government and governed; between landlord and tenant; between master and servant; among the propertied; and even, by the end of the century, between Catholics and Protestants. This situation, similar to that throughout western Europe, signalled — at least superficially — England’s success in assimilating Ireland. The system of courts, centred on Dublin, and, through regular assizes and quarter sessions, borough, sheriffs’, church and manorial courts, reaching deep into the localities, was celebrated as a prime benefit, as well as the principal means, of anglicisation. The English policies which had progressively dismantled indigenous institutions, including the brehon law of Gaelic and gaelicised society, and replaced older Catholic with new Protestant élites, rested on statute, proclamation and judicial decree or process. Sincethe law was essential to England’s rule in Ireland, its opponents countered through the courts and legal argument: as a result, the functioning of the law, especially the quasi-judicial commissions which redistributed land, was politicised. Not only did the law accomplish, it also reflected these changes; for, bit by bit, Catholics were edged from the judicial bench and then disqualified from practising as barristers and attorneys. By the early eighteenth century the courts — publicly at least — were manned by and run for the burgeoning Protestant interest in Ireland.
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Kleineke, Hannes, and James Ross. "Just Another Day in Chancery Lane: Disorder and the Law in London's Legal Quarter in the Fifteenth Century." Law and History Review 35, no. 4 (2017): 1017–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000372.

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Scarcely any turbulence, quarrels or disturbance ever occur there, but delinquents are punished with no other punishment than expulsion from communion with their society, which is a penalty they fear more than criminals elsewhere fear imprisonment and fetters. For a man once expelled from one of these societies is never received into the fellowship of any other of those societies. Hence the peace is unbroken and the conversation of all of them is as the friendship of united folk. This was Sir John Fortescue's idealized account to the exiled prince of Wales, Edward of Lancaster, of the peace-loving nature of London's Inns of Court and Chancery in the mid-fifteenth century. Fortescue was not concerned with the reality, which, as he knew all too well, was different. He was concerned with impressing on his young pupil the perfection of the English law and the education of its practitioners, rather than the imperfections that existed in a society that the prince, as he explicitly told him, would never experience. Few who were familiar with the legal quarter that surrounded the Inns would have recognized the Arcadia that Fortescue described. Far from being the peaceful and well-ordered district that the former chief justice invoked, in the period when he wrote the area to the west of London's Temple Bar was a liminal space, populated by—among others—large numbers of young trainee lawyers, in whom the kind of unruly behaviour otherwise also associated with the early universities, not least the western suburb's Paris counterpart, the quartier latin to the south of the river Seine, was endemic. Among the most important factors that made it so was the very existence of the established, and to some extent tribal, all-male societies of the Inns of Court and of Chancery, at close quarters with the royal law courts and their heady mix of disputants and hired legal counsellors in permanent competition with each other.
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Ariouat, Jacqueline Fellague. "Rethinking Partisanship in the Conduct of the Chartist Trials, 1839–1848." Albion 29, no. 4 (1997): 596–621. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4051885.

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Between 1839 and 1848, the government and legal authorities in England and Wales were confronted with a popular movement of unprecedented size and energy. The numbers involved in active protest and in actual or potential disorder were much greater, and they were diffused over a wider geographical area and longer timespan, than any other protest movement up to recent times. Many departments of the political and legal system were engaged at some level in dealing with Chartist activity, from the Crown and Home Office to the local magistrates and special constables.In 1839 committals for protest crimes comprised 5 percent of all committals to the assizes and quarter sessions. The figures for 1842 and 1848 were 7.5 percent and 4.5 percent, respectively. In some areas the percentage was much higher. Committals for indictable riotous offenses in Lancashire in 1842 totaled 12 percent of all committals, and those in Staffordshire 19.5 percent. Nearly 2,000 Chartists were committed for trial at the assizes alone. About four times that number passed through the lower courts. Just under 90 percent of Chartists tried at the assizes were convicted.
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Books on the topic "Courts of quarter sessions of the peace"

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Emmison, F. G. County records: (Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessions, Clerk of the Peace and Lieutenancy). Historical Association, 1987.

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Blades, Robin. Oxford quarter sessions order book, 1614-1637. Boydell Press/Oxford Historical Society, 2009.

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Oxford quarter sessions order book, 1614-1637. Boydell Press/Oxford Historical Society, 2009.

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Dowdell, E. G. A hundred years of Quarter Sessions: The government of Middlesex from 1660 to 1760. Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, 1986.

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Corupe, Linda. Kingston court records, 1861-1868: Minutes of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1861 to 1864, for the united counties of Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington, 1865 to 1868, for the county of Frontenac. Linda Corupe, 2005.

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Corupe, Linda. Napanee court records, 1865-1870: Minutes of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1865 to 1870, for the County of Lennox & Addington, including the evidence book (1866-1867) of the County's first judge, James Joseph Burrowes. L. Corupe, 2007.

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Stubbs, W. The crown circuit companion: Containing the practice of the assizes on the crown side : with the courts of General and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace : wherein (among other things incident to the practice of the crown law) is included a collection of useful modern precedbnts [sic] of indictments in criminal cases : as well at common law, as those created by statute ... with references to the printed authorities relating thereto. Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gossling for J. Mechell and J. Bailey, 1992.

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Assembly, Canada Legislature Legislative. Bill: An act to abolish the right of courts of quarter sessions and recorders' courts to try treasons and capital felonies. Thompson, Hunter, 2003.

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Catanese, Lynn Ann. Guide to records of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1969: Records of the clerk of courts, records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, criminal records of the sheriff. Chester County Historical Society, 1989.

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Lower Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly. Bill: An act respecting the jurisdiction of the courts of quarter-sessions, and to provide for the more speedy administration of justice in criminal cases = Bill : acte qui a rapport à la juridiction des cours des sessions de quartier, et qui pourvoit à l'administration plus prompte de la justice dans les cas criminels. s.n., 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Courts of quarter sessions of the peace"

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Worthen, Hannah. "The administration of military welfare in Kent, 1642–79." In Battle-scarred. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124807.003.0010.

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In October 1642 Parliament made a commitment to financially support soldiers who had been wounded in their service as well as the widows of those who had been killed. The administration of military welfare was the responsibility of the Justices of the Peace at each county’s Quarter Sessions and this chapter will examine the process in Kent. This county did not experience large scale military action until 1648 and yet it was profoundly affected by the events of the mid-seventeenth century and witnessed loss and division within its own borders throughout the 1640s. This chapter will present evidence taken from Quarter Sessions records in order to discuss who received pensions in Kent and what impact local and national politics had on the administration of that relief.
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Sprack, John, and Michael Engelhardt–Sprack. "The Crown Court." In A Practical Approach to Criminal Procedure. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843566.003.0018.

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The Courts Act 1971 created a new criminal court—the Crown Court—to replace the ancient courts of assize and quarter sessions which had formerly dealt with trials on indictment. The Courts Act has now been largely repealed and its provisions incorporated into the Senior Courts Act 1981 (SCA).
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Cooper, John. "Jews and the Courts 1900‒1945." In Pride Versus Prejudice. Liverpool University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774877.003.0007.

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This chapter addresses Jews and the courts more generally between the early years of the twentieth century and the Second World War. Jews were keen litigants in the lower-level civil courts, particularly in the Whitechapel and Shoreditch county courts presided over from 1911 by Judge Albert Rowland Cluer. Although an able judge, Cluer possessed many foibles and prejudices, and the chapter assesses whether Jewish litigants had their cases fairly tried and whether they were adequately represented by the Jewish barristers who regularly appeared there. It also considers the small minority of Jewish businessmen who were charged at the Old Bailey and quarter sessions with credit fraud, fraudulent claims against insurance companies, and illegal share-pushing schemes. The number of Jewish bankruptcies was also high, for Jewish businessmen tended to be risk-takers and entrepreneurs, always seeking new opportunities in the market—and sometimes, in the process, exposing themselves to prosecution. After the Second World War, many moved into the urban property market or took over sluggish public companies with hidden assets.
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