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Definition of Magistrates

Magistrate
Magistrate Mag"is*trate, n. [L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master.] A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. ``All Christian rulers and magistrates.' --Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. --Blackstone.

Meaning of Magistrates from wikipedia

- "administrative magistrates", to distinguish them from the judiciary magistrates. The President of Portugal is considered the Supreme Magistrate of the Nation...
- Kingdom Magistrate's Court (TV series) Liverpool Magistrates' Court, a court building Bow Street Magistrates' Court City of Westminster Magistrates' Court...
- technically not magistrates since they were elected only by the plebeians, and as such, they were independent of all other powerful magistrates[clarify]. During...
- by Chief Judicial Magistrates and Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrates. The District Magistrate was now the main Executive Magistrate of the district -...
- authorities, but there may be "po****r magistrates" who have "been appointed to curb the tyranny of kings". When these magistrates "connive at kings when they tyrannise...
- Stipendiary magistrates were magistrates that were paid for their work (they received a stipend). They existed in the judiciaries of the United Kingdom...
- Court Bridlington Magistrates' Court Brighton Magistrates' Court Bristol Magistrates' Court Bromley Magistrates' Court Burnley Magistrates' Court Caernarfon...
- The Magistrates' ****ociation is the membership organisation for magistrates in England and Wales. By virtue of its education and training functions it...
- The Magistrate may refer to: The Magistrate (play), an 1885 farce by Arthur Wing Pinero The Magistrate (1921 film), a silent British film adaptation The...
- outside as the local magistrate, typically to be the guiding hand amongst other lay magistrates. In colonial history, resident magistrates have had gubernatorial...