CIRCUIT

A division of the country, appointed for a particular judge to visit for the trial of causes or for the administration of justice. Bouvier. Circuits, as the term is used in England, may be otherwise defined to be the periodical progre es of the judges of the superior courts of co=on Jaw, through the several counties of Elngland and Wales, for the purpose of administering civil and criminal justice. -Circuit judge. The judge of a circuit court. Crozier v. Lyons, 72 Iowa, 401; 34 N. W. 186. -Circu:lt justice. In federal law and practice. The justice of the supreme court.who ia allotted to a given circuit. U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 486.-Circuit paper. In English practice. A paper containing a statement of the time and place at which the,several a ises will be held, and other statistical information con• nected with the a ises.. Holt house. cmcUIT [s. 206]