Magistrate [noun]

Under his plan, every magistrate would be required to be a practicing lawyer with a clean record.

In addition, about three-quarters of the state’s magistrates have never practiced law, the investigation found.

Hand-picked by politicians, some magistrates were found to have accepted bribes, stolen money, flubbed trials, trampled over constitutional protections and mishandled even the most basic elements of criminal cases.

Tom Davis, a Republican, is asking his colleagues in the upper chamber this legislative session to bolster the legal qualifications for magistrates and add a layer of scrutiny to their appointments.

As it stands, unless magistrates volunteer the information, even local delegation members are often left in the dark.

The magistrate appeared to think such an occurrence not at all unlikely, as he committed him to prison for three months.

General Neill, who came later and assumed the rôle of magistrate, showed neither pity nor mercy.

She pampered her master, and, like him, preferred the elder of the magistrate's two sons.

Mollock's discharge by the magistrate put the Chief in a very ludicrous position.

John de Rotron, a distinguished French poet, dramatic writer and magistrate, died.