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Stipendiary magistrate

noun
1.
(United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases.  Synonym: stipendiary.






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"Stipendiary magistrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... about three in the afternoon, on their way from Maryborough to Boolabong, in order that they might take Mr. Medlicot's deposition. After Heathcote's departure it had occurred to Sergeant Forrest of the police—and the suggestion, having been transferred from the sergeant to the stipendiary magistrate, was now produced with magisterial sanction— that, after all, there was no evidence against the Brownbies. They had simply interfered to prevent the burning of the grass on their own run, and who could say that they had committed ...
— Harry Heathcote of Gangoil • Anthony Trollope

... magistrates in every county, the effect of which would have been to disgust all the gentlemen magistrates, and to lead them to the abandonment of their duty. He wished too to unite in all cases the inspectorships of police with the office of stipendiary magistrate, to avoid collision; but the duties of inspector are of a mere ministerial and inferior character, and would not agree well with those of ...
— A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II • Edward Law (Lord Ellenborough)

... had known where to direct I should have thanked you sooner for your two welcome letters from Belfast, where everything seems to have gone off to our hearts' desire, and the Queen's presence, as the Stipendiary Magistrate writes word, has united all classes and parties in a manner incredible to those who know the distance at which they ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria



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