JUDICIAL OFFICER - Any person or court authorized pursuant to section 3041 of this title, or the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, to detain or release a person before trial or sentencing or pending appeal in a court of the U.S. 18 U.S.C.
judicial officer: Judges, referees, and commissioners that make court decisions as a judge.
judicial positions: The judge, referee, and commissioner positions authorized by the state Legislature for a particular court jurisdiction.
Judicial officer exercising some of the functions of a judge. It also refers in a general way to a judge.
Malfeasance
Evil doing, ill conduct; the commission of some act which is positively prohibited by law.
4. - 3. Judicial officers; whose duties are to decide controversies between individuals, and accusations made in the name of the public against persons charged with a violation of the law.
(kõr´nr), judicial officer responsible for investigating deaths occurring through violence or under suspicious circumstances. The office has been traced to the late 12th cent.
magistrate A judicial officer who is lower in rank than a judge, serving as an assistant to the judge and authorized to perform limited judicial functions; similar in function to a court commissioner.
Certiorari: Form of judicial review whereby a court is asked to set aside the decision of an administrative tribunal, judicial officer or public organisation.
When a person is not released by the arresting officer, the person must be taken before a judicial officer to determine whether the person should remain in custody pending trial.
It is also signed by a notary or some other judicial officer that can administer oaths, to the effect that the person signing the affidavit was under oath when doing so.
magistrates are judicial officers appointed by the judges of federal district courts pursuant to the United States Magistrates Act (28 U.S.C.A. §§ 631 et seq.), enacted in 1968.
In Roman law, a decree (decretum) was the decision of the emperor, as the supreme judicial officer, settling a case which had been referred to him.
It refers to an advantage, certain freedom or an oppurtunity given by the judicial officers to the convict in terms of shorter sentence, or early release from the prison.
A judicial officer of a district court who conducts initial proceedings in criminal cases, decides criminal misdemeanor cases, conducts many pretrial civil and criminal matters on behalf of district judges, ...
Court commissioner: A judicial officer at both trial and appellate court levels who performs many of the same duties as judges and justices.
Court of appeals: Intermediate appellate court to which most appeals are taken from superior court.
bankruptcy judge A judicial officer of the United States district court who is the court official with decision
bankruptcy petition The document filed in Bankruptcy Court that details the assets and liabilities of the debtor.
magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
It is also certified by a notary or lawyer or some other judicial officer that can administer oaths, ...
2 a : a municipal, state, or federal judicial officer commonly authorized to issue warrants, hear minor cases, and conduct preliminary or pretrial hearings ...
Empanelled - Selection of citizens by judicial officers to complete a jury of peers. When voir dire is finished and both sides have used the challenges, the jury is complete or empanelled. The juries are then sworn.
Proceeding: The judicial business before the Court or judicial officer; any step or act taken in a lawsuit from the beginning to the executing of the judgment.
mandate - A judicial command or order proceeding from a court or judicial officer, directing the proper officer to enforce a judgment, sentence, or decree.
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Judge: Government official with authority to decide lawsuits brought before courts. Other judicial officers in the U.S. courts system are Supreme Court justices.
part: a court room where specified business of a court is to be conducted by a judicial officer
party: Person having a direct interest in a legal matter, transaction or proceeding.
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE - Release of a defendant from jail or arrest by a judicial officer, upon the promise to appear in court without the necessity of posting bond but with some conditions imposed.
SAISIE-FORAINE.
A term used in Louisiana and in the French law; this is a permission given by the proper judicial officer, to authorize a creditor to seize the... more ...
Mandamus: An order directed to a private corporation, or any of its officers, or to an executive, administrative or judicial officer, or to a lower court, commanding the performance of a particular act.
An official of the judicial branch of government with authority to decide lawsuits brought before courts. The term "judge" may also refer to all judicial officers, including Supreme Court justices.
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Magistrate - A judge whose civil and criminal jurisdiction is limited by law. In federal court, a judicial officer who is assigned numerous trial and pretrial responsibilities.
that 'There has always been a judicial consensus, from the time of the decision in the case of Wheaton v Peters, that no copyright could, under the statutes passed by Congress, be secured in the products of the labour done by judicial officers in the ...
A statement by a person in which the person states that to the best of his or her knowledge, the facts in question are true. An affidavit is sworn before a Notary, Commissioner for Taking Oaths, lawyer or some other judicial officer who can ...
writ - A written court order or a judicial process, directing that a sheriff or other judicial officer do what is commanded by the writ; or giving authority and commission to have it done.
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