Look up: magistrate

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   Magistrate
   A Magistrate is a 'junior judge', they serve in lower courts of law and hear minor offences.
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   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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   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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   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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   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 some branch of it. 'All Christian rulers and magistrates .' Book of Com. Prayer. « Of magistrates some also are supreme, i ...
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   Magistrate
   A `magistrate` is a judicial officer. In common law systems a magistrate usually has limited authority to administer and enforce the law. In civil law systems a magistrate may be a judge of a superior court. In some jurisdictions, such as Australia, the term has become both Federal Magistrates and state magistrates have jurisdiction similar to a judge. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil cases, criminal cases, or both. A related, ...
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   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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   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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   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 judiciary with extremely limited powers; such as, a justice of the...
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