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Bailiff, a keeper or protector, an officer who puts in force an arresting process, or who is employed to distrain for rent, for which employment the certificate of a county court judge is required under the (English) Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1888.Bailiffs to execute county court processes are appointed under s. 28 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), to assist one or more 'high bailiffs' for each court. Also, land-steward. There are several kinds of bailiffs, whose offices and employments greatly differ from one another, yet they agree in that the keeping or protection of something belongs to them all.A Court officer who maintains order during court proceeding; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 136.Means an officer of some courts in United States whose duty usually include keeping order in the court-room and guarding prisoners or jurers in deliberation, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 41....
High bailiffs
High bailiffs, officers appointed under s. 33 of the County Courts Act, 1888, by the judge of each county Court, to attend every sitting of the Court, and by themselves, or the bailiffs appointed to assist them, to serve all summonses and orders, and execute all warrants, precepts, and writs of the Court except as in the Act provided. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 189, references to high bailiff are to be construed as references to the registrar where the office of high bailiff has been vacated....
Bum-Bailiff
Bum-Bailiff, a person employed to dun one for a debt; the bailiff employed to arrest for debt. See BOUND-BAILIFFS....
Bailiff-errant
Bailiff-errant, a bailiff's deputy. See OUTRIDERS....
Bound-bailiffs
Bound-bailiffs, officers who arrested debtors, etc., and who entered into bonds for their good behaviour. The vulgar phrase 'bum-bailiff' is, perhaps, a corruption of this word....
Special bailiff
Special bailiff, one chosen by a party himself to execute process in the sheriff's hands; the appointment of such a bailiff relieves the sheriff of all responsibility, 2 Steph. Com....
bailiff
bailiff [Anglo-French, steward, king's official, from bail stewardship, custody, handing over see bail ] : an officer of some courts in the U.S. whose duties usually include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation ...
Water-bailiff
Water-bailiff, an officer in port towns, whose duty it is to search ships; also an officer appointed under the Salmon Fishery Acts to enforce the provisions of those Acts by searching for illegal engines, etc. See Salmon and Fresh Water Fisheries Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 16), ss. 66 et seq....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Mandavi ballivo
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....
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