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The local magistrate insisted on a cash payment for the speeding ticket.magistrate = judge
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The magistrate set bail at $10,000.
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In the United States federal courts, magistrates assist district court judges.magistrates = judges (of minor offenses or administrative tasks such as preliminary hearings)
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The magistrate and the ministers will examine you. (source)magistrate = judge
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When the magistrate sentences "strokes with a light cane". (source)
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Mr Fraser is an Englishman, a retired magistrate, and he insisted on telling me at length about some of his cases. (source)
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The chief saluted the magistrate, and... (source)magistrate = judge
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I was cleaning at one of the magistrates' houses yesterday.† (source)magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
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To these causes of public distress and apprehension, must be added, the multitude of outlaws, who, driven to despair by the oppression of the feudal nobility, and the severe exercise of the forest laws, banded together in large gangs, and, keeping possession of the forests and the wastes, set at defiance the justice and magistracy of the country.† (source)magistracy = judiciary
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What return shall be made to the man who has never had the wit to be idle during his whole life; but has been careless of what the many care for—wealth, and family interests, and military offices, and speaking in the assembly, and magistracies, and plots, and parties.† (source)magistracies = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
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I'm merely the magistrate of the district. (source)magistrate = judge (or investigating authority)
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Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete.† (source)magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
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To avoid this kind of embarrassment, the Quakers have of late years been gradually declining the public service in the Assembly and in the magistracy, choosing rather to quit their power than their principle.† (source)magistracy = judiciary
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Were this principle rigorously adhered to, it would require that all the appointments for the supreme executive, legislative, and judiciary magistracies should be drawn from the same fountain of authority, the people, through channels having no communication whatever with one another.† (source)magistracies = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
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But the case has to come before a magistrate now; (source)magistrate = judge
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Tata's plan was to speak to Pompeii's magistrates — the men elected to lead the city.† (source)magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
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