I think some people rather suspect that magistrates take the side of the police in cases.

Local magistrates would sometimes take a third of whatever cash they awarded.

The magistrate had correctly taken into account his previous criminal history.

However, magistrates took a serious view of the case in light of the safety aspects.

The magistrate turned round and took a rapid survey of the whole cabinet.

The magistrate took the paper and scribbled his own name on it.

The investigative magistrates took until this year to issue effective international warrants for his arrest.

Any magistrate in England would take one look at a set of letters like that and throw away the bloody key!

But Mexican magistrates are taking a bit longer; so far, they have been deliberating the case for 10 years.

The magistrates took only ten minutes to decide to make an order that 2,235 pounds should be returned to Gardiner.