Sentence examples for which the magistrate from inspiring English sources

The two women were jailed for 28 days for an offence which the magistrate admitted would not normally carry such a severe sentence.

The parties making an assertion of ownership, for instance, would grasp the thing in dispute and lay a wand on it, after which the magistrate would intervene and say, "Let go, both of you".

The court found him innocent of child abuse but guilty of hanging an obscene picture on his bedroom wall, which the magistrates deemed a "public place".Somehow, the Viennese failed to see what is apparent now: that Klimt and Schiele were among the finest ever draughtsmen of the female body.

Another way of stating this resolution of the apparent paradox is to distinguish between the meaning of a word (which the magistrates and the appeal judges all knew) and a decision about how to interpret a communicative act using the word (over which they disagreed).

Believing that this might be intended as the route by which the magistrates would later send their representatives to arrest the speakers, some members of the crowd pushed the waggons away from the constables, and pressed around the hustings to form a human barrier.

But there are some laws which the wise magistrate hesitates to impose.

Many of the early public buildings, including the Morant Bay Courthouse, were burned in the riots of 1865, during which the chief magistrate of the parish and 18 other Europeans were killed.

The manumission could also be entirely civil, in which case the magistrate played the role of the deity.

When a presiding magistrate was proposing a motion, for example, the senators could call "consult" (consule), which required the magistrate to ask for the opinions of the senators.

In this case, the citizen would cry "provoco ad populum", which required the magistrate to wait for a tribune to intervene, and make a ruling.

Judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court, composed of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, beneath which are the magistrates' courts.