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Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the execution and return of a writ, the sheriff may return that he commanded the bailiff to execute it; and if the bailiff have not made a return, the sheriff should return that fact accordingly (mandavi ballivo, qui nullum dedit responsum); or if he have made a return, the sheriff should return it, 1 Chit. Arch. Prac.