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Example sentences for: magistrates

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In the New England colonies, marriages were performed by justices of the peace or other magistrates from the beginning.
Indians applauded the decision of Lord Ripon to allow Indian magistrates to try British defendants in criminal cases, but attempts at social reform such as protecting child brides against rape by their husbands were fought by traditionalist Hindus from Calcutta and Pune with cries of “religion in danger. ”