petty-sessions

Updated: May 6, 2025

However, they're a fine people, take them all in all; and if they were not interfered with, and their national customs invaded with road-making, petty-sessions, grand-jury laws, and a stray commission now and then, they are capable of great things, and would astonish the world.

Charles James Lever - Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2