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- In law, the geographic district that
- constitutes a particular area of
- jurisdiction. In the USA the Court of Appeals
- sits in ten judicial areas or circuits -
- hence circuit courts - and Washington DC. In
- England and Wales the six different centres
- to which High Court and Circuit Judges travel
- to try civil and criminal cases are: Midland
- and Oxford, N Eastern, Northern, S Eastern,
- Wales and Chester, and Western).
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