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Satisfied

Satisfied, means, free from anxiety, doubt, per-plexity, suspense or uncertainty. In order that a magistrate be relieved of all doubts or uncertainties and for his mind to be reasonably certain or free from

Right to begin

to quarter sessions from the petty sessions, the person who appears in support of the order of the magistrate begins. Consult Best on Evidence, ss. 636-630.

Revocation

Revocation, includes cancellation of all orders invalid as well as valid, Hadibandu Das v. District Magistrate, AIR 1969 SC 43 (48). [Preventive Detention Act, 1950, s. 13(2)] The undoing of a thing granted, or

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Remand

of Watson, 693 2d 192 (1984). Remand, to re-commit, or send back to prison, one charged before a magistrate (see Indictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 21, and Summary Jurisdiction acts, 1848, s. 16 and 1879, s. 24),

Reckless disregard of the truth

the truth, means a reckless lack of attention to the truth that misleads or deceives another (as a Magistrate), State v. O'Neil, 879 p. 2d 950 (1994). Means disregard of the truth or falsity of a defamatory

Wakeman

Wakeman [quasi, watchman], the Chief Magistrate of Ripon, in Yorkshire, Camden.

Kazy

Kazy, a Mohammedan judge or Magistrate in the East Indies, appointed originally by the Court of Delhi to administer justice according to their written

Lex

resolution adopted by the old Roman populus (Patricians and Plebeians) in the comitia, on the motion of a magistrate of senatorial rank, as a consul, a pr'tor, or a dictator. The principal maxims under this head are

VerbarSheik

The head of an Arab family or of a clan or a tribe also the chief magistrate of an Arab village The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade

Polemarch

In Athens originally the military commanderin chief but afterward a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners In other Grecian cities a high military and civil

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