They control the mayor, the trustees, the attorneys, the village justice, etc.

I have seen the village justice enforce a law that he knew to be unconstitutional.

The Laubweg refers to the pre-revolutionary concept of village justice mentioned above.

Most of those cases involved part-time town and village justices, he said.

The bridegroom's father, who is retired, was a lawyer and a village justice in Larchmont.

Luba Iler, the village justice, had to sentence a bishop to prison.

But unlike judges in higher courts, many town and village justices have very little help.

In this context, the procedural shortcomings of traditional village justice are alarming.

They were let off by a village justice with $750 fines and no jail time.

Some villages have their own village justice, while others utilize the justice of the town or towns they are located in.