Look up: magistrate

1. Magistrate
   a person who hears the cases and makes the decisions in a magistrates court - a member of the community, not a trained lawyer
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2. magistrate
   In English law, a person who presides in a magistrates' court: either a justice of the peace (with no legal qualifications, and unpaid) or a stipendiary magistrate. Stipendiary magistrates are paid,...
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3. Magistrate
   Magistrates are members of the public who voluntarily give up their time to preside over magistrates' courts. They need have no formal legal qualifications, although they are trained in court procedures.
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4. Magistrate
   Mag'is·trate noun [ Latin magistratus , from magister master: confer French magistrat . See Master .] A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or so...
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5. Magistrate
   • (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
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6. magistrate
   (from the article `Chinese law`) All citizens had an obligation to denounce wrongdoers to the magistrate`s office of the local county (xian), an office that on certain days of the ... ...were the actual administrators. These included prefects, whose positions were divided into several grades according to an area`s size and ... The Se...
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7. magistrate
   magistrate 1. A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice. 2. A judge in a lower court whose jurisdiction is limited to the trial of misdemeanors and the conduct of preliminary hearings on more serious charges. 3. A minor law officer or member of a local judic...
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8. MAGISTRATE
   Judicial officer exercising some of the functions of a judge. It also refers in a general way to a judge.
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9. Magistrate
   A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.The president of the United States is the chief magistrate of this nation; the ...
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10. Magistrate
    (n) Magistrate is the person authorized to perform the duties of the judge in a court, place of judicial authority or judicial functions specially entrusted on them. In certain statues the administrative executives of a province are also considered as magistrate
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11. magistrate
    n. 1) a generic term for any judge of a court, or anyone officially performing a judge's functions. 2) in a few states, an officer of the court at the lowest level who hears small claims lawsuits, serves as a judge for charges of minor crimes and/or conducts preliminary hearings in criminal cases to...
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12. Magistrate
    A Magistrate is a 'junior judge', they serve in lower courts of law and hear minor offences.
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13. magistrate
    In English law, a person who presides in a magistrates' court: either a justice of the peace (with no legal qualifications, and unpaid) or a stipendiary magistrate. Stipendiary magistrates are paid, qualified lawyers working mainly in London and major cities
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14. magistrate
    civil officer who enforces the law.
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15. Magistrate
    Magistrates are members of the public who voluntarily give up their time to preside over magistrates' courts. They need have no formal legal qualifications, although they are trained in court procedures.
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16. Magistrate
    A `magistrate` is an officer of the state; in modern usage the term usually refers to a judge or prosecutor. This was not always the case; in ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest government officers and possessed both judicial and executive powers. Today, in common law systems, ...
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