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  • Thumbnail for Justice of the peace
    A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace. In...
    105 KB (12,604 words) - 18:26, 20 July 2024
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    The justice of the peace (Dutch: vredegerecht, French: justice de paix, German: Friedensgericht) is the small claims court in the judicial system of Belgium...
    10 KB (1,056 words) - 23:31, 31 December 2020
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    level of the mountain. In the summer of 1850, Barlow was appointed Justice of the Peace for Clackamas County (which was much larger then) by acting Governor...
    6 KB (664 words) - 17:59, 24 May 2024
  • The Criminal Law & Justice Weekly (CL&J), formerly known as Justice of the Peace (JPN) was at the time of its closing in 2018 the oldest legal weekly magazine...
    8 KB (966 words) - 21:47, 6 January 2024
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    1814 – April 2, 1902) was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. She began her tenure as justice in South Pass...
    26 KB (2,919 words) - 00:04, 9 August 2024
  • Corporate Rescue and Insolvency Journal Counsel Justice of the Peace Justice of the Peace Reports New Law Journal Tolley's Employment Law Newsletter...
    3 KB (298 words) - 08:33, 3 September 2023
  • the British Ceylon Milling Company. In 1942 he was appointed as a Justice of the Peace. Between 1943 and 1946 he served on the Rubber Research Board. Following...
    5 KB (367 words) - 14:40, 20 September 2023
  • Financial Law Corporate Rescue and Insolvency Counsel Justice of the Peace Justice of the Peace Reports Tolley's Employment Law Newsletter Kenney, Phillip...
    3 KB (297 words) - 19:17, 29 May 2024
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    part-time sheriffs. In 2014, Justice of the Peace courts replaced the previous district courts. In Justice of the Peace courts, lay justices of the peace...
    83 KB (8,698 words) - 12:51, 1 December 2023
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    Justice of the Peace to fill a vacancy in that office in White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana. After having appointed Griffin as a Justice of...
    19 KB (1,864 words) - 11:53, 19 July 2024
  • much doing there." Since that same directory identified the town's justice of the peace and constable, what little happened must have been interesting. Today...
    4 KB (396 words) - 12:59, 13 January 2021
  •  1604) was an English translator, military officer, lawyer, and justice of the peace. His translation into English of Plutarch's Parallel Lives is notable...
    10 KB (1,039 words) - 05:16, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Macon Bolling Allen
    passed the bar exam in Maine in 1844 and became a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace in 1847. He moved to South Carolina after the American Civil War...
    10 KB (1,130 words) - 23:41, 12 February 2024
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    first elected to the Provo City Council in 1861. He served as a justice of the peace and alderman in that city as well. Nuttall also served as the auditor...
    7 KB (468 words) - 07:24, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for County government in Arkansas
    body, the quorum court (members of the quorum court hold the title justice of the peace, usually abbreviated JP), have limited power compared to other states...
    12 KB (1,164 words) - 15:27, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Courts of Scotland
    by "Justice of the Peace Courts". The process is concluded and all District Courts are now abolished and replaced with the new Justice of the Peace courts...
    34 KB (3,952 words) - 06:43, 4 June 2024
  • (January 22, 1740 – November 4, 1809) was an American militia general, justice of the Peace, judge of Probate for twenty years, and was a Delegate to the 1788...
    9 KB (1,193 words) - 13:36, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Jenner
    physician to King George IV, and was also made mayor of Berkeley and justice of the peace. He was a member of the Royal Society. In the field of zoology, he...
    58 KB (5,782 words) - 06:46, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert A. Emmitt
    eastern Oregon. He was also a justice of the peace in Klamath County and later the postmaster and justice of the peace for the city of Klamath Falls,...
    26 KB (2,462 words) - 03:33, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reah Whitehead
    the first female lawyers in Washington state and the first female Justice of the Peace in King County and Washington state. Reah Mary Whitehead was born...
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