Read full poem →Assistant to Christ Perko, must keep friends
With alderman, policemen, magistrates,
So I was just a wheel in a machine
Dictionary Entry
A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
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. magistratesmagistrates localmagistrates civilmagistrates chief
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Poetry examples for “magistrates”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →thither to distribute indulgences. Zuinglius was persecuted by the
bishop of Constance; but, being protected by the magistrates of Zurich,
he set him at defiance, and in 1523 held an open disputation before
Read full poem →Liquor License Commission Professional bg.-719
Magistrates ofe Court House 375
Orphans court Court House
Read full poem →comrade, and supplied Walker with some very valuable anecdotes: he
died one of the magistrates of Irvine, on the 2d of May, 1830, at the
age of seventy.]