The phrase "a common judge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a judge or authority figure that is shared or recognized by multiple parties.
Example: "In disputes between the two companies, they agreed to appoint a common judge to ensure fairness in the proceedings."
Alternatives: "an impartial arbiter" or "a shared adjudicator".
Locke writes "want [lack] of a common judge, with authority, puts all persons in a state of nature" and again, "Men living according to reason, without a common superior on earth, to judge between them, is properly the state of nature".
Mason had previously served as a common pleas judge in Cuyahoga County and in the state legislature.
As class-action lawsuits become increasingly common, Judge Pointer's appointment of a dispassionate panel of experts to evaluate the strength of the scientific evidence is a model more courts should follow.
But this year the timing had worked out, and Ms. D'Annunzio remembered that as a little girl she had dreamed of getting "locked in a mall" — a common fantasy, judging by the scene at Target.
Artist Becky Cloonan talked about her first experiences with Batman through the animated series by Bruce Timm in the early 1990s, a common introduction judging from all the raised hands in the audience.
A common-law judge, who occupies a position to which most members of the legal profession aspire, is not subject to outside supervision and inspection by any council of judges or by a minister of justice, nor is he liable to be transferred by such an official from court to court or from place to place.
And he was not averse, as we know, to the odd subjective definition: "excise: a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid".
Contracts are mainly governed by state statutory and common (judge-made) law and private law (i.e. the private agreement).
In my experience, it's a common complaint from judges that the public doesn't understand their work, and doesn't care about what they do.
The disagreement centered on a common problem for judges and intelligence analysts alike: how to analyze ambiguous cases where there is an array of suspicious information but no definitive proof that someone is a terrorist.
Only half were reproduced successfully using a strict threshold for significance that was set at P < 0.0001 (the P value is a common test for judging the strength of scientific evidence).
