Magistrate Quick reference
A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.)
... ( Massenet : Werther ). See Bailli, le...
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... n. A justice of the peace sitting in a magistrates’ court . Most magistrates are lay persons and have no formal legal qualifications: they receive no payment for their services but give their time voluntarily. There are also, however, district judges (magistrates’ court) (formerly called stipendiary magistrates) in London and other major...
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (3 ed.)
...magistrate [LME] Magistrate is from Latin magistratus ‘administrator’, from magister ‘master’. This also gives us master [OE], its weakened form mister [E16th], and miss...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...magistrate A salaried judicial officer who presides over a local court (Magistrates’ Court) as a member of the magistracy . See also clerk of courts ; justice of the peace ; registrar ; stipendiary magistrate...
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A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
... A justice of the peace sitting in a magistrates’ court . Most magistrates are lay persons and have no formal legal qualifications: they receive no payment for their services but give their time voluntarily. The Courts Act 2003 provides magistrates with national jurisdiction , although they must be assigned to a particular local justice area . See also district judge (magistrates’ court) . n. A justice of the peace sitting in a magistrates’ court . Most magistrates are lay persons and have no formal legal qualifications: they receive no...
Stipendiary Magistrate Reference library
Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...Stipendiary Magistrate ( SM ) ( obs ) A salaried magistrate as opposed to an unsalaried sessional magistrate or justice of the peace who hears cases in some Magistrates’ Courts (e.g. in Queensland, and in Victoria until the late 1970s). As the distinction is now largely irrelevant, state legislation has been amended to refer just to ‘Magistrate’ (M). In Commonwealth legislation a reference to a stipendiary magistrate includes a reference to ‘any Magistrate in respect of whose office an annual salary is payable’: Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) s...
liaison magistrate Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...magistrate A judge responsible for facilitating and advising on matters concerning mutual legal assistance in relation to the investigation and prosecution of transnational and cross‐border crime; representing UK criminal justice; identifying good practice and lessons learnt from other national jurisdictions ; and liaising with UK and other liaison officers ( see mutual assistance ) on matters concerning organized crime , counter‐terrorism, and other serious crime. The Crown Prosecution Service supports liaison magistrates in Washington,...
Magistrate, The (1885) Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2 ed.)
..., The Author: Arthur Wing Pinero Date/place of 1st performance: 1885 , London Date of 1st publication: 1892 Genre: Farce in 3 acts Setting/time of action: Posket's home, a supper room, and a Magistrate's room, London, 1890s Cast: 13m, 3f Cis Farringdon is a remarkable 14-year-old: he flirts, drinks, and gambles. In fact, he is 19, but his mother Agatha lied about her age when she married her second husband, the amiable Mr Posket, magistrate of the Mulberry Street Police Court. Encouraged by Cis, Posket and Cis go off on a binge to a...
ex officio magistrate Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
...officio magistrate A magistrate by virtue of holding some other office, usually that of mayor of a city or borough. Most ex officio magistrateships were abolished by the Justices of the Peace Act 1968 and the Administration of Justice Act 1973, but High Court judges are justices of the peace ex officio for the whole of England and Wales and the Lord Mayor and aldermen are justices ex officio for the City of...
ex officio magistrate Quick reference
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (2 ed.)
...officio magistrate A magistrate by virtue of holding some other office, usually that of mayor of a city or borough. Most ex officio magistrateships were abolished by the Justices of the Peace Act 1968 and the Administration of Justice Act 1973 , but High Court judges are justices of the peace ex officio for the whole of England and Wales and the Lord Mayor and aldermen are justices ex officio for the City of...
Secular Magistrate, Office of Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...the magistrate is also the leading member of human society, the chief goal of which is that men come to know God, glorify him, and gain eternal life. Thus, secular authority exists “for the sake of the church,” and the chief duty of the magistrate is not simply to preserve external peace and order but to establish and preserve discipline, good morals, and true religion. To put it another way, the magistrate is guardian, with respect to external discipline (i.e., only in the secular realm), of both tables of the Decalogue. This means that the magistrate is...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... officer concerned with the administration of laws XIV; justice of the peace XVII. — L. magistrātus magistracy, magistrate, f. magistr- MASTER ; see -ATE 1 . Hence magistracy XVI. So magistrature office of a magistrate. XVII. —...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • serrate • concentrate • airfreight • ingrate • filtrate • arbitrate • exfiltrate • magistrate • orchestrate • calibrate • recalibrate • celebrate • emigrate • immigrate • denigrate • penetrate • defenestrate • administrate • aspirate • perpetrate • decerebrate • desecrate • execrate • consecrate • integrate • carbohydrate , hydrate • nitrate • quadrate • prostrate • borate , quorate • portrait • polyunsaturate • acculturate • depurate • indurate • triturate • inaugurate • suppurate • substrate • adumbrate • ameliorate , meliorate...
