| 单词 | home circuit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasHome Circuit Home Circuit n. (also with lower-case initials) British Law (now historical) the judicial circuit having London as its centre; see circuit n. 5.In 1876 the Home Circuit, then comprising Sussex, Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, was merged with the Norfolk Circuit and renamed the South Eastern Circuit. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal power > [noun] > extent or range of jurisdiction > a district > under specific jurisdiction sheriffdom1385 wardenry1462 the verge (of the court)1529 sheriffwick1535 circuit1574 territoryc1626 Home Circuit1664 hundred-court1671 byrlaw1850 1664 Newes 7 July For the Home-Circuit, The Lord Chief-Justice Bridgeman, and Mr. Justice Browne. 1772 Town & Country Mag. July 339/1 England is divided into the six following circuits; namely, the home circuit, the Norfolk circuit, the Oxford circuit, the midland, the western circuit, and the northern circuit. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. x. 75 Mr. Furnival practised at the common law bar, and early in life had attached himself to the home circuit. 1876 Times 13 Mar. 11/5 The incongruity of the old name of the Home Circuit with a district which takes in Norwich and Lewes, Maidstone and Huntingdon, is manifest, and even the most uncompromising Conservatives of the Circuit Mess are probably gliding easily into the use of the new title. 1993 F. Barker Culture of Violence ii. ii. 175 With the exception of three who are unidentified, we know the names of all those who died in prison on the Home Circuit in the period. < as lemmas |
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