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justice of the peace

NOUN
  1. a local magistrate with limited powers

How To Use justice of the peace In A Sentence

  • The justice of the peace, like the jury, like irremovable judges, like the Bar, was resented by those who regarded justice as something dispensed by rulers rather than something administered by society for the benefit of society.
  • The two exchanged vows in front of a justice of the peace at New York City Hall today.
  • The Justice of the Peace reserved her decision pending the outcome of these applications.
  • According to Miriam Bixler, Absalom was a multitalented individual who worked as a farmer, woodcarver, maker of gunstocks, and justice of the peace, as well as a potter.
  • The justice of the peace was a twitchy little man with a stutter and a two-dollar rug laid cattywampus across his head. Come Again No More
  • These private informations came before the Justice of the Peace for the pre-hearing required under Section 507.1 of the Criminal Code.
  • While such violations of town ordinances are criminal offenses, they are made so by a general act of the Legislature, 3820 of The Code; and while the Mayors of the cities and towns have jurisdiction under sec. 3818 of The Code, any Justice of the Peace also has jurisdiction of such offenses. Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900
  • There must be an active judicial hearing or trial where the court is represented by a judge or justice of the peace.
  • We carried him by the lug and the horn before a justice of the peace.
  • Like Brudenell, he was a justice of the peace, accustomed to presiding over cases of unexplained death. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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