Session

(sès'shūn.) [From L. se io, a sitting.] The time of sitting of a court, council, or other legislative or municipal body.-(Law.) A sitting of judges in court upon their commi ion. The S. ofa court of judicature is styled a term. The word se ions, or quarter se ions, signifies those quarterly meetings of justices of the peace, when minor offences are tried, or busine transacted which requires the sanction of two or more of them. (Scots. Law.) The High Court of Se ions is the supreme civil court of Scotland. [s. 816]