a mFolice' court. The name of a kind of in- *feridr court in several :of the states, which has ‘a summary jurisdiction over minor offenses and ‘misdemeanors of smiall consequence, and the powers of a committing magistrate in respect to more serious crimes, and, in some states, a -Hmited jurisdiction.for the trial of civil causes. In English law. Courts in which stipendiary magistrates, chosen from barristers of a certain standing, sit for the dispatch of business. Their general duties and powers are the same as those of the unpaid magistracy, except that one of .them-may usually act in cases which would reuire to be heard before two other justices. arton.—Polico de chargem Fr. _French law. A bill of lading. l 38, ‘fit. 2—Police jury, in Louisiana, is the ‘designation of the board of officers in &. parish corresponding to the commissioners’ oF * gupervigors of a county in other states.—Police justice. A magistrate charged exclusively with _the duties incident to the common-law office of .,& conservator or justice of the peace; the pre- ‘fix “‘police” serving merely to distinguish them ‘from justices having also civil jurisdiction. " Wenziler v. People, 58 N. Y. 530.—Police mag- _istrate. See MAGISTRATE.—Police officer. “One of the staff of men employed in cities and _ towns to enforce the municipal police, 4. c., the Jaws and ordinances for preserving the peace "and order of the community. Otherwise “called “policeman.”—Police power. The pow- "er vested in a state to establish laws and ordinances for the regulation and enforcement of its police as above defined. The power vested in the legislature to make, ordain, and establish _ all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, _ gtatutes, and ordinances, either with penalties -or’, without, not repugnant to the constitution, _ag_ the shal ‘ fare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects . of the same. Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 85. The police power of the state isan author- ‘ity conferred by the American constitutional ‘ epee upon the individual states, through which they are enabled to establish a special department of poljce; adopt such regulations as tend