justice of the peace

1. 1.

   a local magistrate with limited powers

   Broadermagistrate

   law

Questions about justice of the peace

What does justice of the peace mean?

justice of the peace means "a local magistrate with limited powers".

Is justice of the peace a common word?

justice of the peace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.