Judge/Magistrate Salaries. How much does a Judge/Magistrate make? The median annual Judge/Magistrate salary is $158,008, as of March 31, 2017, with a range usually between $154,989-$176,828, however this can vary widely depending on a variety of factors.
On Aquinasâs view, a law is âa rule or measure of human acts, whereby a person is induced to act or is restrained from actingâ (ST IaIIae 90.1). Elsewhere, he describes a law as a âdictate of practical reason emanating from a rulerâ (ST IaIIae 91.1).
That both the king, and by extension the government, must behave in accordance with the law is one of the constitutional principles that emerges from Magna Carta. Lord Sumption, a medieval historian and supreme court justice, has argued that the principle was âgenerally accepted for at least a century before 1215â and the dispute was âabout what the law wasâ.