Yesterday, magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest.
The secret was out and the magistrates issued a warrant to arrest the illegal mint.
The magistrate did not issue a ruling on the motion today.
While an elected magistrate could issue orders about any or all of these things, he certainly did not concern himself with the actual mechanics.
The investigating magistrate had issued an arrest warrant which under Belgian law is equivalent to temporary detention.
And last month, a federal magistrate in Manhattan issued a similar ruling.
In 1991, a magistrate in Brooklyn issued a warrant for his arrest, which he ignored.
He is certain, however, that no magistrate would issue a mandamus requiring the presence of the ship's owner on grounds so trivial.
The magistrate issued no finding on that.
But now, neither commissioners nor magistrates would issue any more summonses against debtors who owed less than £20.