0 a person who has power to put the laws into force and sentence those guilty of lesser crimes -- úředník se soudní pravomocí
the Magistrates’ Court.
Neither perpetrator nor victim could criticize the punishment decided by the magistrate and higher-ranking officials.
Consequently, a magistrate basing his laws on the light of nature alone might not have been as tolerant as may at first appear.
In fact, agricultural law had long required police and military forces to aid the country's rural magistrates.
A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
There is no easy correlation between areas with rich burials and those where historical sources note the presence of kings, magistrates or warlords.
She makes extensive and critical use of relatively neglected primary sources - like magistrates' reports and other court records, and local newspapers - in telling her story.
More civil cases than we would normally imagine were taken to magistrate's courts.
The anti-noble thrust of the new penal norms was clearly worded by the magistrates.