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Neither perpetrator nor victim could criticize the punishment decided by the magistrate and higher-ranking officials.
Consequently, a magistrate basing his laws on the light of nature alone might not have been as tolerant as may at first appear.
In fact, agricultural law had long required police and military forces to aid the country's rural magistrates.
A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
There is no easy correlation between areas with rich burials and those where historical sources note the presence of kings, magistrates or warlords.
She makes extensive and critical use of relatively neglected primary sources - like magistrates' reports and other court records, and local newspapers - in telling her story.
More civil cases than we would normally imagine were taken to magistrate's courts.
The anti-noble thrust of the new penal norms was clearly worded by the magistrates.
For some local magistrates, and almost all clerks and runners, lawsuits signified a source of extra income.
Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government.
He listened very carefully and agreed to change the magistrates.
Indeed, police were rarely explicit in defining the significance of cosmetics before the magistrate.
He brings to that narrative, however, greater nuance in our understanding of the personalities of individual pastors and of the factions that divided specific magistrates.
If caught, they could be, and frequently were, taken before a magistrate, flogged and then returned to their old master.
His network of county and city magistrates was in most cases the only sources of information he had about events in the provinces.
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