Sentence examples for to magistrates from inspiring English sources
noun
A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
In the city-states of ancient Greece, policing duties were assigned to magistrates.
References from her employers and a charity she supports were handed to magistrates.
Leeds council had originally refused the festival a licence but organisers appealed to magistrates and won.
It was submitted to magistrates on July 2, two days before the investigation was initially closed.
Those with the lowest rating, 1, will be restricted to magistrates courts.
This relates to magistrates, top ranking magistrates, a lawyer and a former president of the republic.
It acquired the right to assign duties to the magistrates, to determine the two provinces to be entrusted to the consuls, to prolong a magistrate's period of office, and to appoint senatorial commissions to help magistrates to organize conquered territory.
"We don't need to go to a magistrate to get a warrant.
Karin Faith Klapper, a lawyer in Manhattan, is to be married today to Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
The troubleshooter will report to Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak, who last year was appointed to monitor the agency.
D. F. Manley: Is this fellow when discovered in trespass sent to magistrate but not judge?
