CIRCUIT, also signifies the journey, or progress, which the judge takes twice every year, through the several counties of England and Wales, to hold courts and administer justice, where recourse cannot be had to the king's courts at Westminster: hence England is divided into six circuits, viz. the Home circuit, Norfolk circuit,
Midland circuit, Oxford circuit, Western circuit, and Northern circuit.
In Wales there are but two circuits, North and South Wales: two judges are assigned by the king's commission to every circuit.