The magistrate disqualified himself from hearing the case because of a conflict of interest.

The magistrate stroked his beard.

He's the head of the anti-mafia pool of magistrates.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.