0 a person who acts as a judge in a law court that deals with crimes that are less serious -- （審理輕微案件的）地方法官
If he doesn't pay the fine soon, he'll be up before the magistrate.
Paul is a magistrate.
I'm doing a course for magistrates.
How do you become a magistrate?.
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.
