Magistrate
Magistrate, or chief magistrate, is also a common Chinese Chinese translation of xianzhang (县长/縣長 literally: county leader) the political head of a county or xiàn (县/縣) which ranks in the third level of the administrative hierarchy of the PRC. The translation dates from imperial China in which the county magistrate was the lowest official in the imperial Chinese bureaucracy and had judicial in addition to administrative functions.
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... In an inquisitorial system of law the examining magistrate or investigating magistrate is a judge who carries out investigations into cases and arranges ...
... stories, "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" (1955), "Well, you know what magistrates are ... a fellow hasn't the brains and initiative to sell jellied eels, they make him a magistrate." Bertie Wooster often appeared before magistrates when he was arrested for minor ... A plump and foolish magistrate is a key character in Amy Tan's children's book (and the related PBS television show) Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat ...
... The county magistrate tried to persuade Agnes to deny her faith under the promise that if she did, she would be released ... Then the magistrate threatened torture, but she showed no fear ... Finally, on January 22, the magistrate decided on her punishment ...
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... He was remanded on February 26, 2009 by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate and an ultimatum was issued to settle the Rs ... earlier the CEO Khavan Perera, the CFO, and several other directors were remanded by the same Magistrate ... In March the Magistrate refused to consider the application for bail on the grounds that the matter was under consideration in an ongoing high court case ...
Famous quotes containing the word magistrate:
“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
““O human creature, ... you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.””
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)