All 15 Uses
magistrate
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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- Henchard was less popular now than he had been when nearly two years before, they had voted him to the chief magistracy on account of his amazing energy.†
Chpt 17magistracy = judiciary
- The next morning Henchard went to the Town Hall below Lucetta's house, to attend Petty Sessions, being still a magistrate for the year by virtue of his late position as Mayor.†
Chpt 28magistrate = judicial official
- She looked cursorily at Henchard and the second magistrate, and Henchard looked at her, with a momentary pause, as if she had reminded him indistinctly of somebody or something which passed from his mind as quickly as it had come.†
Chpt 28
- "Where did she do that?" said the other magistrate.†
Chpt 28
- Stubberd was sworn in, the magistrate's clerk dipped his pen, Henchard being no note-taker himself, and the constable began— "Hearing a' illegal noise I went down the street at twenty-five minutes past eleven P.M. on the night of the fifth instinct, Hannah Dominy.†
Chpt 28
- The magistrates consulted, and the second one said that the bench was of opinion that twelve feet nine inches from a man on his oath was admissible.†
Chpt 28 *magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
- The truth was that the old woman had appeared in court so many more times than the magistrates themselves, that they were obliged to keep a sharp look-out upon their procedure.†
Chpt 28
- "We don't want to hear your life and adventures," said the second magistrate sharply, filling the pause which followed.†
Chpt 28magistrate = judicial official
- The retort of the furmity-woman before the magistrates had spread; and in four-and-twenty hours there was not a person in Casterbridge who remained unacquainted with the story of Henchard's mad freak at Weydon-Priors Fair, long years before.†
Chpt 31magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
- The masonry of the top was clamped with iron at each joint; since it had been no uncommon thing for desperate men to wrench the coping off and throw it down the river, in reckless defiance of the magistrates.†
Chpt 32
- You sold them slily the next morning, and the day after you stood before the magistrates with the eyes of all your sympathizing neighbours concentrated on your back.†
Chpt 36
- You insulted Royalty, Henchard; and 'twas my duty, as the chief magistrate, to stop you.†
Chpt 38magistrate = judicial official
- Blowbody was the third of the three borough magistrates.†
Chpt 39magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
- "Oh, 'twas here—just here," said the magistrate.†
Chpt 39magistrate = judicial official
- They must have thrown it into the river higher up amongst the willows at Blackwater, to get rid of it in their alarm at discovery by the magistrates, and it must have floated down here.†
Chpt 41magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
Definitions:
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(1)
(magistrate) a judge or judicial officialThe exact meaning of magistrate varies widely depending upon the context. For example:
- in the U.S. federal court: assists district court judges by handling minor offenses or administrative tasks such as preliminary hearings (often referred to as a magistrate judge rather than just a magistrate)
- in some U.S. states: a judge in the state court
- in France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and other civil law countries: a sitting magistrate is a judge and a standing magistrate is a prosecutor
- in England: may be a volunteer without formal legal training who performs a judicial role with regard to minor matters
- in ancient Rome: a powerful officer with both judicial and executive power
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)