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Peritropal

Rotatory circuitous

Roundabout

Circuitous going round indirect as roundabout speech

Circuits

Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a

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Cascade system

A system or method of connecting and operating two induction motors so that the primary circuit of one is connected to the secondary circuit of the other the primary circuit of the latter being

Impedance

The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current being

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

Rheochord

A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit or varying the strength of an electric current by inserting a greater or less length of it in

Judicial-council

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.

District

District [fr. districtus, Lat.]: (1) The circuit or territory within which a person may be compelled to appear; (2) Circuit of authority; province. See [Constitution

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

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