Mayor
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
i The chief or executive magistrate of a city. 2 His principal duty is to enforce the laws of the city. He may also preside over the mayor's court, which has jurisdiction, concurrent with the courts of other committing magistrates, over offenses perpetrated within the city limits, and of special matters given by statute. See Magistrate. McKEAN'S TABLES.
See Table, 4.