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circuit 1 a : a route formerly taken by traveling judges b : a district established within a state or the federal judicial system see also the Judicial System in the back matter 2 cap : the court of appeals for a circuit in the federal judicial system [after the 9th Circuit's ruling "V. M. Sher"] ...
Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Banc (or Banco), sittings in [fr. bancus, Lat., a seat or bench of justice. Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench le Common Pleas, is the Court of Common Pleas, or the Common Bench], the sittings of a Superior Court of Common 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, s. 2, and (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, s. 95). The business of the courts in banc was transferred to Divisional Courts of the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 40, 41]. See now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 63. See DIVISIONAL COURT....
Turn, or Tourn
Turn, or Tourn, the great Court-leet of the county, as the old county Court was the Court-baron; of this the sheriff was judge, and the Court was incident to his office, wherefore it 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, which had long been obsolete, is formally abolished by s. 18 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887....
Judicial-council
Judicial-council, a regularly assembled group of judges whose mission is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the courts or which they sit; esp., a semiannual assembly of a federal circuit's judges called by the circuit's chief judge, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 851....
Session, Great, of Wales
Session, Great, of Wales, a Court which was abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c. 70; the proceedings now issue out of the Royal Courts of Justice, and two of the judges of the High Court hold the circuits in Wales and Cheshire, as in other English counties.The jurisdiction of the Great Session of Wales, which was first established by Henry VIII., was similar to that of Judges of Assize in England. Latterly it was exercised by two barristers, who sat for eighteen days only, into which period all the litigious business has to be compressed....
United States Court of Veterans Appeals
United States Court of Veterans Appeals : a federal court having exclusive jurisdiction to review decisions of the Board of Veterans' Appeals see also federal circuit ...
Clerk of Arraigns
Clerk of Arraigns, an assistant to the Clerk of Assize. His duties are in the Crown Court on circuit....
chief judge
chief judge : the principal, presiding, or most senior judge of esp. a lower level court or of a circuit ...
Beau-pleader
Beau-pleader (to plead fairly), an obsolete writ upon the Statute of Malbridge (52 Hen. 3, c. 11), which enacted that neither in the circuits of the justices, nor in counties, hundreds, or courts-baron, any fines should be taken for fair pleading, i.e., for not pleading fairly or aptly to the purpose; upon this statute, them, this writ was ordained, addressed to the sheriff, bailiff, or him who shall demand such fine, prohibiting him to demand it; an alias, pluries, and attachment followed, Nat. Br. 596. It used to be had as well in respect of vicious as fair pleading by way of amendment-2 Inst. 122....
Federal Circuit
Federal Circuit : a circuit that has nationwide jurisdiction over appeals or reviews of certain customs, trademark and patent cases (as actions for patent applications or patent interference), and claims against the U.S. from district courts or federal agencies and that has appellate jurisdiction over cases in the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court of International Trade, and the United States Court of Veterans Appeals ...
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