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Stipendiary magistrate
Stipendiary magistrate: salaried, legally qualified judge in UK magistrates' courts, also called district judge (magistrates' courts) after the Access to Justice Act 1999; sat alone, unlike unpaid lay justices.
Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884
Summary Jurisdiction Act 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 43), also the Summary Jurisdiction (Repeal) Act 1884: UK act of 7 August 1884 repealing obsolete pre-1884 procedure statutes for England and Wales and clarifying the definition of a court of summary jurisdiction.
Tehsildar (تحصیلدار)
Tehsildar (تحصیلدار), also Tahsildar or Tahasildar; Mukhtiarkar in Sindh. Chief revenue officer of a tehsil subdivision in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, collecting land revenue, maintaining records, and issuing certificates; a Mughal-era office formalized under British rule.
Triumvirate
Triumvirate (triumviri, tresviri): a Roman board of three magistrates or commissioners; also the informal 60 BCE alliance of Caesar, Pompey, Crassus and the legal 43 BCE triumvirate of Octavian, Antony, Lepidus under the lex Titia.
Vehmic court
Vehmic court (Vehmgericht, Femgericht) means the medieval secret tribunals of Westphalia, not unrelated Fehm courts elsewhere. Freigraf chairmen and about 30,000 sworn Freischöffen judged capital crimes under Königsbann; peak 14th–15th centuries, last public sitting 1568.
Wolseley, Saskatchewan
Wolseley, Saskatchewan, a town on Fairy Lake east of Regina, home to the 1894-95 Wolseley Court House, the only surviving Territorial-era courthouse in the province, plus the swinging bridge and Town Hall/Opera House.