MAGISTRATES Synonyms

• a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes

• someone who administers a business

• the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor

• someone who manages a government agency or department

• someone with the power to settle matters at will

• someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue

• a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

• the quality of being just or fair

• the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870

• judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

• a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice

• having official authority or sanction

• of or relating to an office

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office

• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

• verified officially

• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

• formerly a high judicial officer

• the jurisdiction of a justiciar

• an academic degree higher than a bachelor's degree but lower than a doctor's degree