Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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circuit-riding
n. Hist. The practice of judges' traveling within a legislatively defined circuit to hear cases in one place for a time, then another, and so on.
circuit-riding justice
Hist. A U.S. Supreme Court justice who, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, was required to travel within a circuit to preside over trials. ( In each of three circuits that then existed, two justices sat with one district judge. See CIRCUIT-RIDING.3. Hist. Judicial cognizance of causes or offenses; jurisdiction.