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circuit court

noun

  1. a court holding sessions at various intervals in different sections of a judicial district.
  2. (initial capital letters) the court of general jurisdiction in a number of U.S. states.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of circuit court1

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10

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Example Sentences

Right now, there is no such conflict at the circuit-court level.

In the meantime, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is investigating the incident.

And this was how, on Aug. 11, Aaron Walker and his co-defendants ended up on the 9th floor of the Montgomery County circuit court.

However, a 2013 9th Circuit Court of Appeals court ruling did not grant the same rights to the remaining Shusters.

When the high court ruled in Brown, the Charleston circuit court, of course, reversed itself.

My father, as judge of the Circuit Court, has been in intimate touch with public men and party politics.

For this "offence" his case was presented to the grand-jury of the Circuit Court the 29th of September, 1851.

A distinct affirmation of Federal supremacy has also been had by a Circuit Court opinion in 1911.

Among his colleagues at the bar he was no longer looked upon as the Circuit-Court lawyer of earlier days.

He is known to me as a counsellor practising law in Circuit Court.

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