Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 22 > Chapter 8 - Magistrates' Compensation

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Chief magistrate: means the magistrate in each county who is designated by the Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court as the chief magistrate for administrative purposes for the county which he serves. See South Carolina Code 22-8-10
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Full-time magistrate: means a magistrate who regularly works forty hours a week performing official duties required of a magistrate as a judicial officer. See South Carolina Code 22-8-10
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Part-time magistrate: means a magistrate who regularly works less than forty hours a week performing official duties required of a magistrate as a judicial officer. See South Carolina Code 22-8-10