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Virginia Circuit Courts (1829 words) |
 | The Chief Judge of the circuit is elected by vote of the judges serving the circuit. |
| Circuit court judges are required to reside in the circuit they serve and must have been admitted to the Virginia Bar at least five years prior to election or appointment. |
| The clerk of the circuit court is a constitutional official and is elected to an eight-year term by the voters of the locality. |
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Circuit - LoveToKnow 1911 (1723 words) |
| The term circuit courts applies distinctively in America to a certain class of inferior federal courts of the United States, exercising jurisdiction, concurrently with the state courts, in certain matters where the United States is a party to the litigation, or in cases of crime against the United States. |
| A circuit court of appeals is made up of three judges of the circuit court, the judges of the district courts of the circuit, and the judge of the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit. |
| On the Northern circuit, courts are held at Inverness, Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen; on the Western, at Glasgow, Stirling and Inveraray; and on the Southern, at Dumfries, Jedburgh and Ayr. |
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