Magistrate
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive or judicial power given by the constitution.
32 Ark. 127.
The president of the United States is the chief magistrate of this nation; the govern- In a narrower sense, an inferior judicial officer, as a justice of the peace.
32 Ark. 127.
The term generally applies to judicial officers having power to issue warrants for the arrest of persons charged with crime, but the use of the term has been held not to necessarily imply such a power.
32 Ark. 124.