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magistrate

noun as in civil officer

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The magistrates sent the case to the crown court and the child is due to appear there at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday.

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Last year, a magistrate in Barcelona rejected an attempt by a man to appeal against his 54-year-old son's euthanasia after it had been approved by the guarantee and evaluation board.

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Mr Howard highlighted the words of Chester's deputy chief magistrate Tan Ikram, who told Amesbury he had seen examples of punches to the head ending in fatality.

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It was made in the Roman Republic which lasted from 57BC, when a monarch was replaced by elected magistrates, until AD27, when the empire began.

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Daniel Bannister, 50, of no fixed abode, has been remanded in custody pending sentence and appeared, via an online link, at a magistrates' court hearing in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, on Monday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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