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Pocket Sheriff

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Pocket-sheriff. When the sovereign appoints a person sheriff who is not one of the three nominated in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, he is called a pocket-sheriff, 1 Bl. Com. 342.

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