Magistrate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Portgreve
In old English law the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town a portreeve
Pretor
A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans
Pretorian
Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate judicial exercised by or belonging to a pretor as pretorian power or authority
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Provost
A person who is appointed to superintend or preside over something the chief magistrate in some cities and towns as the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow answering to the mayor of
Recognizance
An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized with condition to do some particular act as to appear at the same or some other
Abarnare
or convicted thief; 'bere morth, a detected homicide. Also to detect and discover any acret crime to a magistrate, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England; Leg. Canuti, c. 104. Abarnare, means to detect or disclose a secret
Law
means law enacted by the State. Law must have some firmness. Law means positive State-made law, Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207: (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172. The word 'law'
Abdication
Abdication, where a magistrate or person in office voluntarily renounces or gives it up. It differs from resignation, in that resignation is
Addictio
Addictio, the act of a magistrate, the pr'tor in Civil Law. The addictio had different purposes: to enfranchise a slave (manumissio vindicta), to adopt
Affidavit
understood to mean a sworn statement in wiring made especially under oath or on affirmation before an authorised Magistrate or Officer. Affidavit has been defined in sub-clause (3) of s. 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897
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