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What does eyre mean?

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Noun
  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
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In concert with the curia regis, eyre circuits staffed by itinerant judges dispensed justice throughout the country, operating on fixed paths at certain times.
Carlyle took a leading part in the defence of Governor eyre.
Dr. eyre has subjected his work to a most searching revision.
The only sources perused systematically were the English eyre rolls, which gives, not surprisingly, a distinctly English flavor to his analysis.
The enforcement of the possessory assizes and measures against crime was now entrusted to royal justices, sent out on eyre to act as the king's agents.
This was the highest tribunal of the Forests, and the Chief Justice in Eyre, who presided at it, was at the head of this division of the English legislature.

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