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• committing magistrate — An inferior judicial officer who is invested with authority to conduct the preliminary hearing of persons charged with crime, and either to discharge them for lack of sufficient prima facie evidence or to commit them to jail to await trial or (in …   Black's law dictionary

• committing magistrate — An inferior judicial officer who is invested with authority to conduct the preliminary hearing of persons charged with crime, and either to discharge them for lack of sufficient prima facie evidence or to commit them to jail to await trial or (in …   Black's law dictionary

• committing magistrate — A justice of the peace, mayor, police judge, or other judicial officer authorized to commit a person arrested for crime pending preliminary examination and trial, sometimes trial by a higher court. State v Rogers, 31 NM 485, 247 P 828 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• magistrate — A judge or justice of an inferior court; a mayor; a justice of the peace. A judge of court, such as a police court, mayor s court, or justice s court, the jurisdiction of which is restricted to the trial of misdemeanors and the conducting of… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• magistrate — A public civil officer, possessing such power legislative, executive, or judicial as the government appointing him may ordain. In a narrower sense, an inferior judicial officer, such as a justice of the peace. Shadwick v. City of Tampa, 407 U.S.… …   Black's law dictionary

• magistrate — A public civil officer, possessing such power legislative, executive, or judicial as the government appointing him may ordain. In a narrower sense, an inferior judicial officer, such as a justice of the peace. Shadwick v. City of Tampa, 407 U.S.… …   Black's law dictionary

• Magistrate — For the musical group, see Magistrates (band). Magistrate Sir Lyman Poore Duff, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada Occupation Names Judge, Justice of the Peace, magistrat …   Wikipedia

• Clearstream — Type Subsidiary Founded January 2000 (2000 january) Headquarters Luxembourg (city) …   Wikipedia

• preliminary — Introductory; initiatory; preceding; temporary and provisional; as preliminary examination, injunction, articles of peace, etc @ preliminary complaint In some states, a court without jurisdiction to hear a criminal case on its merits may issue a… …   Black's law dictionary

• examiners in chancery — Officers appointed by the English court of chancery to take the testimony of witnesses and to return the same to the court. examining court. A committing magistrate; a magistrate authorized to act, and presiding as, a magistrate inquiring into an …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• McNabb-Mallory Rule — The rule which requires that a suspect be promptly brought before a magistrate or else incriminating statements made by him during the illegal detention will be suppressed. McNabb v. U. S., 318 U.S. 332, 63 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. 819, and Mallory v …   Black's law dictionary