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He was confirmed as chief of Mvezo by the king of the Thembu tribe, but under British rule, his selection had to be ratified by the government, which in Mvezo took the form of the local magistrate.†
Chpt 1.1

magistrate = judicial official
As a chief—or headman, as it was often known among the whites—my father was compelled to account for his stewardship not only to the Thembu king but to the local magistrate.†
Chpt 1.1
The magistrate accordingly sent a message ordering my father to appear before him.†
Chpt 1.1
One did not defy magistrates in those days.†
Chpt 1.1 *

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
My father's response bespoke his belief that the magistrate had no legitimate power over him.†
Chpt 1.1

magistrate = judicial official
He was asserting his traditional prerogative as a chief and was challenging the authority of the magistrate.†
Chpt 1.1
When the magistrate received my father's response, he promptly charged him with insubordination.†
Chpt 1.1
The magistrate simply deposed my father, thus ending the Mandela family chieftainship.†
Chpt 1.1
The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper.†
Chpt 1.2
These were not scheduled, but were called as needed, and were held to discuss national matters such as a drought, the culling of cattle, policies ordered by the magistrate, or new laws decreed by the government.†
Chpt 1.3
At Mqhekezweni I had met many white traders and government officials, including magistrates and police officers.†
Chpt 1.5

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
In the rural areas, an interpreter in the magistrate's office was considered second only in importance to the magistrate himself.†
Chpt 1.7

magistrate = judicial official
In the rural areas, an interpreter in the magistrate's office was considered second only in importance to the magistrate himself.†
Chpt 1.7
We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps.†
Chpt 1.7
The magistrate attempted to hand Paul some change, but Paul would not take it.†
Chpt 1.7
The magistrate was offended.†
Chpt 1.7
The magistrate asked him exactly what he meant by that.†
Chpt 1.7
The magistrate boiled overand exclaimed, "You'll pay dearly for this!" and then walked away.†
Chpt 1.7
The magistrate knew precisely who I was and I know that if he had asked me rather than Paul, I would have simply performed the errand and forgotten about it.†
Chpt 1.7
While many in the ANC, including myself, were eager to bail out the women, Lilian Ngoyi, the national president of the Women's League, and Helen Joseph, secretary of the South African Women's Federation, believed that for theprotest to be genuine and effective, the women should serve whatever time the magistrate ordered.†
Chpt 3.10
At 8:30 I appeared before the local magistrate and was formally remanded to Johannesburg.†
Chpt 5.14
It was low-key, and the magistrate seemed no more concerned than if he were handling a traffic summons.†
Chpt 5.14
The next day I appeared in court before a senior magistrate for formal remand.†
Chpt 5.14
I had appeared before this magistrate on numerous occasions in my professional capacity and we had grown to respect one another.†
Chpt 5.14
During the proceedings, the magistrate was diffident and uneasy, and would not look at me directly.†
Chpt 5.14
When the crowd had quieted down and the case was called, I formally greeted the prosecutor, Mr. Bosch, whom I had known from my attorney days, and the magistrate, Mr. Van Heerden, who was also familiar to me.†
Chpt 5.16
I then made application for the recusal of the magistrate on the groundsthat I did not consider myself morally bound to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I had no representation.†
Chpt 5.16
Nor was it possible to receive a fair trial from a white judge: Why is it that in this courtroom I am facing a white magistrate, confronted by a white prosecutor, escorted by white orderlies?†
Chpt 5.16
Throughout the proceedings the prosecutor and the magistrate repeatedly inquired about the number of witnesses I intended to call.†
Chpt 5.16
The magistrate was taken by surprise by my action and asked me with some incredulity, "Have you anything more to say?"†
Chpt 5.16
He briefly addressed the court and asked the magistrate to find me guilty on both counts.†
Chpt 5.16
The court was then adjourned until the following day, when I would have a chance to address the court in what is known as the plea in mitigation before the magistrate gave his sentence.†
Chpt 5.16
The magistrate pounded his gavel and cried for order.†
Chpt 5.16
When I had finished, the magistrate ordered a ten-minute recess to consider the sentence.†
Chpt 5.16
Exactly ten minutes later, in a courtroom heavy with tension, the magistrate pronounced sentence: three years for inciting people to strike and two years for leaving the country without a passport; five years in all, with no possibility of parole.†
Chpt 5.16
Sita, the distinguished Indian campaigner who had led our defiance at Boksburg in 1952, had just been convicted by a Pretoria magistrate for refusing to vacate his house—the house he had lived in for more than forty years—which was in a precinct that had been proclaimed "white" in terms of the Group Areas Act.†
Chpt 5.17
We were brought before a magistrate and charged with sabotage.†
Chpt 5.19
Warders generally did not treat this lightly, for when a prisoner was charged he was allowed a judicial hearing and, depending on the seriousness of the offense, a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town.†
Chpt 6.30
Within a day or two a magistrate was brought in from Cape Town and I was taken to the room at headquarters that was used as the island's court.†
Chpt 6.30
In this instance, the authorities were willing to call in an outside magistrate because they knew they had an open-and-shut case.†
Chpt 6.30
For the previous two years, her visits had been stymied by local magistrates and by the repeated bannings that prevented her from traveling.†
Chpt 6-32

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
In administrative court, the charge would be read by the presiding magistrate.†
Chpt 6-33

magistrate = judicial official
Unlike judges and magistrates, who were automatically permitted access to prisons, members of Parliament had to request permission to visit a prison.†
Chpt 6-33

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court
I drafted a letter to the judge or magistrate in my own handwriting, and then sent it to the other side.†
Chpt 7.41

magistrate = judicial official
A date was set for the island's disciplinary court, and a magistrate from Cape Town was assigned.†
Chpt 7.42

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(1) (magistrate)
a judge or judicial official
The 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)

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