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circuit court
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Circuits
Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a … Gloucester, Leicester, Maidstone, Nottingham, Shrewsbury and Winchester. See ASSIZES, and Ency. of the Laws of England. The County Court circuits, at present 59 in number, are divisions of the country for the purposes of the County Court
Magna Carta
assizes in the counties, cannot be determined, shall be ended by them in some other place in their circuit; and those things which for difficulty of some Articles cannot be determined by them, shall be referred to … reserved for the vigorous administration of Cornwell to abolish this military tenure, which he did by intermitting the Court of Wards in 1645. So perfectly hopeless was the renewal of this oppressive system at the restoration of
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Assize, or assise
two commissions. (I.) General, which is issued twice a year to the judges being usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many … of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. Hence the judicial assemblies,
circuit justice
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circuit
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circuit judge
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Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Law as a full court as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius or on circuit. Such sittings might be held out of term as well as in term (1 & 2 Vict. c.32,
Turn, or Tourn
was called the sheriff's tourn, and it had its name originally from the sheriff making a turn of circuit about his shire, and holding this Court in each respective hundred, 2 Hawk. P.C. c. 10. The tourn,
United States Court of Federal Claims
Claims : a federal court having nationwide trial jurisdiction over claims against the United States see also federal circuit NOTE: The claims over which this court has jurisdiction include those based on the Constitution, acts of Congress,
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