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[{"role": "system", "content": "Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions. The core concept of circuit courts requires judges to travel to different locales to ensure wide visibility and understanding of cases in a region. More generally, some modern circuit courts may also refer to a court which merely holds trials for cases of multiple locations in some rotation. King Henry II instituted the custom of having judges ride the circuit each year to hear cases, rather than requiring every citizen to bring their cases to London (see Assize of Clarendon). Thus, the term \"circuit court\" is derived from the practice of having judges ride around the countryside each year on pre-set paths \u2212 circuits \u2212 to hear cases. Especially on the United States frontier, a judge might travel on horseback along with a group of lawyers. Abraham Lincoln was one such attorney who would ride the circuit in Illinois. In more settled areas, a stagecoach would be used. Eventually the legal caseload in a county would become great enough to warrant the establishment of a local judiciary. Most of these local judicial circuits (that is, in terms of the actual routes traveled by judges) have been thus replaced by judges regularly stationed at local courthouses, but in many areas the legacy term remains in usage.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not sure what exactly a circuit court is. I need to learn more. What is a circuit court?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A circuit court is when judges travel to different places and understand cases in a region."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Okay, I think I understand. What kind of cases do they do? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not exactly sure but I find it fascinating that Abraham Lincoln was an attorney who rode the court in Illinois!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh did he? I didn't know that. Were any other famous historical figures circuit court judges or attorneys?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not that I'm aware of, but King Henry II came up with the idea of circuit court and having judges right to hear cases."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I see. So it's a pretty old system in history then? I'm just trying to remember if I've ever known anyone who was involved in a circuit court case."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I can't think of any but Archibald Cox Jr. was a lawyer who served under John F. Kennedy."}]