magistrates in English

noun

1

a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

It is clear that the magistrates heard a great deal of factual evidence and had regard to that.

Use "magistrates" in a sentence

1. They will Appear before magistrates tomorrow

2. He will appear before the magistrates tomorrow.

3. Magistrates were given wider discretionary powers.

4. Cognizance of offences by Magistrates ( section 190)

5. You're one of my personally nominated magistrates.

6. He was Acquitted of disorderly behaviour by magistrates

7. The High Court can also appoint more Judicial Magistrates of the first class , who are designated as Additional Chief Judicial Magistrates .

8. A provincial magistrates' court last week ruled it unconstitutional.

9. Mr Ling was Acquitted of disorderly behaviour by magistrates

10. The magistrates Adjured by all the bonds of duty

11. I firmly believe in Arbitrament by police magistrates and civil courts.

12. He was bound over to keep the peace by magistrates.

13. "Aediles, Roman magistrates" published on by Oxford University Press.

14. The forfeiture proceedings take place before magistrates and are often uncontested.

15. The use of itinerant magistrates gradually increased, making prosecutions more convenient.

16. Some magistrates have abused their powers of arrest to extort confessions.

17. He was granted bail by magistrates on his committal for trial.

18. The magistrates granted that the charity was justified in bringing the action.

19. Archon, Greek Archōn, in ancient Greece, the chief magistrate or magistrates in many city-states

20. * Be subject to principalities and powers and obey magistrates, Titus 3:1.

21. Magistrates are under a constraint not to send young people to prison.

22. The Mirror for Magistrates Yet was I, or I parted thence, Bewreckt.

23. The disciples had been beaten publicly; now the magistrates had to apologize publicly.

24. Consuls were the chief civil and military magistrates, elected through the assemblies by popular vote

25. Hartlepool magistrates ordered him to carry out 240 hours community service and pay ￡250 compensation.

26. Consul definition is - either of two annually elected chief magistrates of the Roman republic

27. He is due to appear before magistrates in connection with a public order offence.

28. Magistrates are also reported to want to reconstruct the raid using volunteers to act out the roles.

29. A Magistrates ' Court must confirm the emergency closure of a business or the seizure of food .

30. It was a town of magistrates and lawyers, of government functionaries and landed nobles.

31. Greenway appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court to face seven charges of accepting bribes.

32. Augures were specialists assisting magistrates in taking the auspices and advising the Senate and the magistrates on various aspects of divination, not the least of which was the proper handling of prodigies and portents

33. In South Africa two Witnesses called on magistrates, lawyers, and clerks in the court buildings.

34. So it is that the purses of the magistrates and their underlings perforce remain empty.

35. In addition, the list will include, inter alia, Sub-Divisional Magistrates, First Class Judicial Magistrates, officers of the level of Major and above in the Armed Forces and SHOs and Tehsildars of the concerned areas.

36. In addition to the ￡000 fine, magistrates ordered Laleham Healthcare to pay ￡250 towards the prosecution costs.

37. An 18-year-old man of no fixed abode appeared at Teesside magistrates court yesterday.

38. Magistrates refused a similar request last December after residents' objections, but Anchor resubmitted the application.

39. Therefore, the police, magistrates and judges, who are all predominantly male, will tend to leniency.

40. Home Office ministers and officials are currently wooing judges and magistrates to the new approach.

41. Stephen Leach, of no fixed abode, said nothing during the brief hearing before Liverpool magistrates.

42. 29 Douras was remanded into police custody and is due to reappear before magistrates on July 7 for committal.

43. Today at Cirencester magistrates court, John Gore, bearded with a long ponytail, was committed for trial at Crown court.

44. Craxi repudiated the allegations and Chiesa himself subsequently claimed that his own testimony to magistrates had been distorted.

45. * We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, A of F 1:12.

46. 35 When it became day, the civil magistrates sent the constables to say: “Release those men.”

47. And when it was day, the magistrates sent the Apparitors, [officers,] saying, Let those men go

48. So what if Jethmalani ' s argument was unhesitatingly upheld in the Metropolitan Magistrates Court of Mumbai ?

49. Oxford police recently reported their concern to the city's magistrates and their determination to crack down.

50. Affray is an indictable offence which may be determined summarily (in the Magistrates Court.) What is Affray?