A district or territory under the jurisdiction of a sheriff. Scottish.

The jurisdiction of, or district under the care of, a Warden of the Marches.

Hence the verge (of the court), employed with other prepositions or in other constructions to designate this area or jurisdiction.

The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction.

The district or division of country through which the judge makes his circuit.

Law (formerly chiefly Scots Law). The defined district over which a judge's jurisdiction extends and to which it is restricted.

the judicial circuit having London as its centre; see circuit, n. 5.

in English History the court having civil and criminal jurisdiction within a territorial hundred.

transferred. A district having its own byrlaw court, or local law.