Sentence examples for local justices from inspiring English sources

For local justices of the peace, however, business is surging.

The seemingly simple idea that the local justices should have law degrees went nowhere.

Until the 19th century, except for a brief period during the rule of Oliver Cromwell (1653 58), public order and safety in England remained mainly the responsibility of local justices of the peace, constables, and the watch and ward.

At the time of Judge Kaye's plan for changes in 2006, critics said it was a Band-Aid approach that sidestepped the politically risky task of challenging the local justices.

Perhaps these modern Conservatives hark back to the Poor Law Relief Act of 1723, when local justices of the peace were allowed to contract the administration of relief out to those who would feed, clothe and house the poor.

As lord president of the north he quelled all defiance of his authority and made many enemies by his insistence on the honour due to him as the King's representative, but his administration was on the whole just and efficient; he supervised the local justices and curbed the often tyrannous excesses of local magnates.

Homespun local justice was preferred, as was the common sense of the local jury.

It is now experimenting with a traditional local justice system to try them.

In each of these cases local justice has dismissed the victim's profession as probable cause".

In Texas, constables are elected officials who serve as bailiffs in the local Justice of the Peace Court system.

The legislature is ridiculed in the newspapers ("Reckless copperheads!") and a local justice of the peace resigns in protest.