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Criminal information

and notorious misdemeanours, riots, batteries, libels, and other immoralities. Criminal informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppressive conduct if arising from corrupt andmalicious motives, and not from mere error of

constitute

office or function [those who are constituted heirs or named legatees "Louisiana Civil Code"] [legal authority s all magistrates] 2 : establish found [to tribunals inferior to the supreme Court "U.S. Constitution art. I"] 3 a :

Compounding

6 QB 308; (1846) 9 QB 371; Odgers on the Common Law. And compounding offences only cognizable before magistrates on summary jurisdiction is not within 18 Eliz. c. 5. Corruptly to take reward for helping a person

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Lictor

an ax and fasces or rods as ensigns of his office His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public to clear the way and cause due respect to be paid to them

federal rules of evidence

evidence Rules which govern the admissibility of evidence at trials in the Federal District Courts and before U.S. Magistrates. Many states have adopted evidence rules patterned on these federal rules. Source: FindLaw

tribunal

tribunal [Latin, platform for magistrates, from tribunus tribune, from tribus tribe] 1 : the seat of a judge or one acting as a

Censor

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens and who also exercised the

Consul

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic

Decemvir

One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome

Duumvir

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions

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