Magistrate

A magistrate is responsible for conducting the business of the law. When mediating disputes, levying fines and indentures, even organizing and overseeing the execution of the condemned, magistrates rely on precedent, law at every level, and sometimes just good arguments to ensure that society is running smoothly.

Qualifications

Magistrates should be wise, well-read, and temperate.

Appointment

Magistrates are elected to office, though sometimes the title is entirely unofficial.

Duties

Manage disputes, decide fines and indentures, and be an expert of precedence and law.

Benefits

So long as the fines are within reason, magistrates are free to levy them as a tax in exchange for their time. This is also a prophylactic against bribery.

Accoutrements & Equipment

Magistrates wear a glass-beaded necklace with white, black, and red beads in that pattern.

Grounds for Removal/Dismissal

When people no longer trust the magistrate to fulfill their duties, they are no longer a magistrate.

Type

Civic, Political

Alternative Naming

Judge, Ombudsman

Source of Authority

Tradition, Democratic authority

Length of Term

Lifetime