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Circuit court
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Circuit courtThe name of a court of the United States, which has both civil and criminal jurisdiction. In several of the states there are courts which bear this name.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
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Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.
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Chronological
Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
Church-warden
An officer whose duties are, as the name implies, to take care of, or guard the church.
Cinque ports
English law. Literally, five ports. The name by which tho five ports of Hastings, Ramenhale, Hetha or Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich, are known.
Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
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Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
Circumstandibus
Persons, practice. Bystanders from whom jurors are to be selected when the panel has been exhausted.
Circumstantial evidence
Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that can not be proven directly, such as with an eye-witness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the lawyer will provide the judge or juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a juror or judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly; it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances; hence, "circumstantial" evidence. Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.
Circumvention
Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet.
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Chronological
Arranged in the order in which events happened; according to date.
Church
A temple or building consecrated to the Honor of God and religion; or, an assembly of persons, united by the profession of the same Christian faith, met together for all religious worship. Robertson v. Bullions, 9 Barb. 95 (1850). The civil courts have only to do with the rights of property. When a right of property depends on a civil court question, and that question has been decided by the highest tribunal within the religious organization to which it has been carried, the civil courts accept that decision as final. Relations of Civil Law to Church Policy (1875) Hon. William Strong; Watson v. Jones, 13 Wall. 713, 722-31 (1871).
Church-warden
An officer whose duties are, as the name implies, to take care of, or guard the church.
Cinque ports
English law. Literally, five ports. The name by which tho five ports of Hastings, Ramenhale, Hetha or Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich, are known.
Circuit
A division of country visited by a judge for the dispensing of justice, as for the trial of causes; also, the periodical journey itself.
Circuit court
Circuits
Certain divisions of the country, appointed for particular judges to visit for the trial of causes, or for the administration of justice.
Circuity of action
Practice, remedies. It is where a party, by bringing an action, gives an action to the defendant against him.
Circular indemnity clause
In such a clause, the cargo owner stipulates that no claim will be made against the carrier's agents, servants, stevedores, terminal operators and subcontractors and that if a claim is made, the cargo owner will indemnify the carrier against all consequences.
Circulating medium
By this term is understood whatever is used in making payments, as money, bank notes, or paper which passes from hand to hand in payment of goods, or debts.
Circumduction
Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can afterwards be brought.
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