Bailiff Errant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bailiff errantBailiff-errant
Bailiff-errant, a bailiff's deputy. See OUTRIDERS....
Errant
Errant [itinerant], applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc. see EYRE....
Outriders
Outriders, bailiffs-errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of their counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred Court....
Bailiff
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....
Nonvidentur qui errant consentire
Nonvidentur qui errant consentire.-(They do not appear to consent who commit a mistake.) See Broom's Leg. Max....
Bum-Bailiff
Bum-Bailiff, a person employed to dun one for a debt; the bailiff employed to arrest for debt. See BOUND-BAILIFFS....
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 ...
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