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- And lastly, a judge in South Africa presides over a Supreme Court; the presiding officer of a lower court is called a magistrate.†
Chpt N48magistrate = judicial official
- But I am sorry to tell you that they took him away, and I heard that the magistrate had sent him to the reformatory.†
Chpt 1.10
- They do not speak with him, they do not jest with him, they do not sit and let him be, but they ask, ask, ask, why, why, why,—his father, the white man, the prison officers, the police, the magistrates,—why, why, why.†
Chpt 1.14magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
- — You then made a statement before Andries Coetzee, Esquire, Additional Magistrate at Johannesburg?†
Chpt 2.22magistrate = judicial official
- I shall see the magistrate, he said.†
Chpt 3.31
- He sat for a while lost in his thoughts, then he said with difficulty, for such a thing is not easy to say, I have spoken to the magistrate before.†
Chpt 3.31
- I shall go to see the magistrate, he said.†
Chpt 3.31
- When I come home in this, he said, my wife will think they have made me a magistrate.†
Chpt 3.31
- They all laughed, and Kumalo came out of his dumbness and laughed also, first at the thought that this humble man might be a magistrate and second at the thought that a magistrate should drive in such a car.†
Chpt 3.31
- They all laughed, and Kumalo came out of his dumbness and laughed also, first at the thought that this humble man might be a magistrate and second at the thought that a magistrate should drive in such a car.†
Chpt 3.31
- A white man climbed out of the car, and he saw with further surprise that it was the magistrate, and the foolish jest of the night before came back to him at once.†
Chpt 3.32
- Jarvis got down from his horse, and he shook hands with the magistrate, and with other white men that were climbing out of the car, bringing out with them sticks and flags.†
Chpt 3.32
- The chief saluted the magistrate, and...
Chpt 3.32 *magistrate = judge
- The chief saluted the magistrate, and the magistrate the chief, and there were other salutes also.†
Chpt 3.32magistrate = judicial official
- Jarvis took some of the sticks and flags, and so did the magistrate, after he had taken off his coat because of the heat.†
Chpt 3.32
- Jarvis and the magistrate stood together, and they kept on pointing at the hills, then turned and pointed down the valley.†
Chpt 3.32
- Kumalo heard Jarvis say to the magistrate, That's too long.†
Chpt 3.32
- The magistrate shrugged his shoulders, saying, That's the way these things are done.†
Chpt 3.32
- The magistrate said, I don't mind at all.†
Chpt 3.32
- He said goodbye to the magistrate, and began to walk across the bare fields, measuring the distance with his strides.†
Chpt 3.32
- Kumalo heard the magistrate say to one of the white men, They say he's going queer.†
Chpt 3.32
- Then the magistrate said to the chief, You will see that not one of these sticks is touched or removed.†
Chpt 3.32
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)