magistrate

[ˈmædʒɪstreɪt]

Definition:
1. A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice.
2. An official who acts as a judge in the lowest courts of law.

Use 'magistrate' in a sentence:

1. In wind and cold, the county magistrate himself came to direct operations.
2. Set the public telephone and E-mail county magistrate;
3. Long long ago, a county magistrate named Wang Lu worked in present Anhui Province, east China.
4. But the woman failed to turn up to court and the magistrate struck out the case.
5. In the North, a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping.
6. The Magistrate System and Its Reference.
7. They came in a huge truck full of police men, plus two police women, plus a plain clothes intelligence agent and a magistrate.
8. Then one day two farmers came to the magistrate hoping he might settle a dispute.
9. The magistrate refused his bail .
10. The magistrate refused his bail.
11. Why did you tell the magistrate your name was waters?
12. And you tell me this magistrate expressed great sympathy and commiseration for you?
13. The president is the chief magistrate of the United state.
14. This great poet used to be the magistrate of yangzhou.
15. The lawyer made a brief, telling speech to the magistrate.
16. When the magistrate asked Wang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago." The magistrate examined the jar and the fresh red dates in it carefully. Then he said: "Bring the ingots back, Wang Wu!" How did the county magistrate infer that Wang was lying?
17. He set to work to draft his statement to the magistrate.
18. The thief was brought before the magistrate.
19. The magistrate committed him to prison for a month.
20. 'Too late. He must go before the magistrate now.'
21. I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
22. Mr Linton was a magistrate, and though he had fifty wives dead, he should inquire into this.
23. He came up before the local magistrate for speeding.
24. As magistrate of Chun'an for four years.
25. He was wanted for the murder of a magistrate.
26. At last one day, when he was Deputy Magistrate of Hawrah, I made bold to call on him.
27. The magistrate imposed a fine.
28. On the Examination of the County Magistrate in the First Years of the Republic.
29. The trattic magistrate heard the man's explanation for getting a parking ticket.
30. Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
31. "Come nearer," said the magistrate, with a patronizing wave of the hand, "and tell me to what circumstance I owe the honor of this visit."
32. The magistrate should obey the Laws, the people should obey the magistrate.
33. It may be done under a warrant granted by a magistrate.
34. Magistrate seems to be different for each computer to calculate the time stoppage time.
35. And although often painted as a recluse, Darwin served as a local magistrate, meting out justice in his dining room.
36. Cases involving minor summary offences are heard by magistrates' courts presided over by a full-time legally qualified resident magistrate.
37. I was terrified with news that the magistrate had ordered that I should go to service.
38. Tao Yuanming wouldn't bow and scrape for five pecks of rice ( the regulation salary of a magistrate).
39. The magistrate bound him over to be of good behaviour.
40. This is the last case which the magistrate will hear before lunch.
41. There is not among them an esquire, saving the unlettered magistrate.
42. And she traveled in this way to the magistrate's home.
43. She will face a local magistrate on Tuesday.
44. Would their new magistrate be as nice?
45. The man came up before the magistrate on a charge of theft.
46. A magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house.
47. A city magistrate ruled that the novel was obscene and copies should be destroyed.
48. I hope the magistrate has not been too severe with him.
49. He chose not to appear in court, where a magistrate revealed his identity.
50. John is a police magistrate and he works very hard.
51. I thought that the magistrate was going to fine me but he let me off.
52. In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.
53. Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.
54. The crown court, however, upheld the magistrate's decision.