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Join the roomEl término magistrado se utiliza en una variedad de sistemas de gobiernos y leyes para referirse a un oficial civil que administra la ley. En la antigua Roma, un magistratus era uno de los funcionarios gubernamentales de mayor rango, y poseía tanto poderes judiciales como ejecutivos. En otras partes del mundo, como China, magistrado es una palabra aplicada a una persona responsable de la administración sobre un área geográfica particular. Hoy en día, en algunas jurisdicciones, un magistrado es un oficial judicial que escucha casos en un tribunal inferior, y típicamente trata asuntos más menores o preliminares. En otras jurisdicciones, los magistrados son típicamente voluntarios capacitados designados para tratar asuntos criminales y civiles en sus áreas locales.
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“It is impossible to overrate the importance of keeping the administration of justice by magistrates clear from all suspicion of unfairness.”
“It is necessary for Courts of Justice to hold a strict hand over summary proceedings before magistrates, and I never will agree to relax any of the rules by which they have been bound. Their jurisdiction is of a limited nature, and they must shew that the party was brought within it.”
“Excess of jurisdiction is ground for prohibition.”
“I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.”
“It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.”
“It is the more fit for the Supreme Court to give some certain rule in it that may regulate and guide the judgment of inferior Courts.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.