Magistrate - Law Dictionary Search Results

Burgomaster

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland Flanders and Germany corresponding to mayor in England and the United States

Ephor

A magistrate one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta They exercised control even

Proceres

Proceres, Chief Magistrates. Dom Proc., Domus Procerum; House of Lords.

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Quatuorviri

Quatuorviri, magistrates who had the care and inspection of roads among the Romans, Civ. Law.

VerbarGerontes

Magistrates in Sparta who with the ephori and kings constituted the supreme civil authority

Kumar Mishra v. State of Bihar, (2006) 1 SCC 557. The word 'cognizance' indicates the point when a Magistrate or a Judge first takes judicial notice of an offence. It is entirely a different thing from initiation

Investigation

that Code for the collection of evidence conducted by the police officer or other persons other than a Magistrate in this behalf. Under the Code 'investigation consists generally of the following steps: (i) proceeding to the spot;

arraign

stressing goal of an action + raisnier to speak] : to bring (a defendant) before a judge or magistrate to hear the charges and to plead usually either guilty or not guilty compare indict NOTE: For a

Taking cognizable

Taking cognizable, the expression 'taking cogniz-able' means the Magistrate take cognizance of an offence and not the offenders, Raghubans Dubey v. State of Bihar, (1967) 2 SCR

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