In Pendle Hill, in 1612, a local magistrate lewdly grabbed thirty-two different women.
At the opening of this début novel, the teen-age son of a local magistrate in coastal Nigeria goes missing.
An inquiry was set to be opened by a local magistrate into the precise circumstances of the incident.
At wits' end, I met with the local magistrate and argued with considerable intensity that there had to be consequences.
"The greatest evil that theatergoers in this city have to contend with is the ticket speculator," a local magistrate named Crane said in 1901.
Judges and lawyers protested against the government after a minister reportedly threatened a local magistrate (whose courthouse was subsequently set alight).
In 1641 also Corneille married Marie de Lampérière, the daughter of a local magistrate, who was to bear him seven children to whom he was a devoted father.
The family produced a suicide note and persuaded a local magistrate to order an investigation into Mr. Ranjan, the boyfriend — which his supporters have described as politically motivated.
The image evoked is that of a local magistrate in imperial times, bending an ear to a peasant's complaint and promising to take matters into his own hands.
The Havilands made headlines in 1914 when a local magistrate slammed into a taxi they were riding in a block from Dean Street.
A local magistrate, judge or other official, depending on the state, can perform that service, but more commonly, a member of the clergy does.
