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justice of the peace

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  • justice of the peace  a local magistrate with limited powers

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    • (n) a local magistrate with limited powers
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    1. When Campillo's justice of the peace resigned in protest, Maroto, who took advantage of Spain's new law in 2005, turned the post over to his husband.
    2. Serving as a kind of justice of the peace-cum-moral authority, he presides over holiday celebrations and resolves familial land disputes.
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  • justiciar  /dʒəs ˈtɪ ʃɪ ɑ/ ?  formerly a high judicial officer
  • justiciary  /dʒəs ˈtɪ ʃɪə rɪ/ ?  formerly a high judicial officer
  • justifiable  /ˈdʒə stə ˌfaɪ ə bəl/ ?  capable of being justified
  • justifiably  /ˈdʒə stə ˌfaɪ əb li/ ?  with good reason
  • justification  /ˌdʒə stə fə ˈkeɪ ʃən/ ?  something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows…
  • justificative  /ˈdʒəs tɪ fɪ kɛɪ tɪv/ ?  attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  • justificatory  /ˈdʒəs tɪ fɪ kɛɪ tə rɪ/ ?  attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  • justified  /ˈdʒə stə ˌfaɪd/ ?  having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins
  • justifiedly  with honesty
  • justifier  /ˈdʒəs tɪ faɪ ə/ ?  a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
  • justify  /ˈdʒə stə ˌfaɪ/ ?  show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for
  • justinian  /dʒəs ˈtɪ nɪən/ ?  Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against…
  • justinian code  the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for…
  • justinian i  Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the…
  • justinian the great  Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire…
  • justly  /ˈdʒəst li/ ?  with honesty
  • justness  conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety
  • jut  /ˈdʒət/ ?  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  • jut out  extend out or project in space
  • jute  /ˈdʒut/ ?  a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
  • jutish  one of the major dialects of Old English
  • jutland  /ˈdʒət lənd/ ?  peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark…
  • jutted  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
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