Judicial officer, of a lower or puisne court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.
1I see Bourigeau in the distance, bringing the justice of the peace.
2And the justice of the peace is a clerk in your store.
3The next thing was to go to the justice of the peace.
4The justice of the peace who indicted the thieves was Western Starr.
5He was commissioned a justice of the peace by the Territorial authorities.
6A justice of the peace will be here to perform the ceremony.
7The old justice of the peace could not avoid showing his uneasiness.
8The affair was inquired into by a Spanish justice of the peace.
9He is the justice of the peace here-hewould be bound to.
10The next week, we were married by a justice of the peace.
11They had him afore a justice of the peace early this morning-
12My mind wandered as the justice of the peace began the ceremony.
13They know every justice of the peace from Texas to Fort M'Henry.
14I suppose he's a justice of the peace now, a law-giver, eh?
15Their titles range from justice of the peace to state supreme court justice.
16Lincoln began arguing cases before the local justice of the peace, Bowling Green.
Translations for justice of the peace