Relating or pertaining to the character, office, powers, or duties of a magistrate or of the magistracy. Magisterial precinet. In some American states, a local subdivision of a county, defining the territorial jurisdiction of justices of the peace and constables. Breckinridge Co. v. Mc Iracken, 61 Fed. 194, 9 C. C. A. 442.
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