Magistrate
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The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest ranking govern
Sir Lyman Poore Duff, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
A magistrate's office in the United States
Justice of the peace
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A justice of the peace is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with
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…April 2021, 56% of sitting magistrates were women, 13% were Black, Asian and minority ethnic and 82% per aged above 50. In 18th-century Ireland, unpaid justices of the peace from the local landed gentry operated on a similar basis to their English contemporaries. Stipendiary resident magistrates were added from 1814. In the…
Justice of the Peace office in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
A justice of the peace in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, hears a case (1941).