Bailiff - Law Dictionary Search Results
Catchpoll
A bailiffs assistant
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
Sheriff's Officers
Sheriff's Officers, bailiffs, who are either bailiffs of hundreds or bound-bailiffs.
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Distress
of the tenant or owner. The Act of 1888 also requires that no person shall act as a bailiff to levy a distress for rent unless he be authorized so to act by the certificate of a
Magna Carta
the lord, if she hold of another.' See DOWER. The 8th chapter relates to Crown debts:-'We or our bailiffs shall not seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the present goods and chattels
Bailiwick
Bailiwick [fr. bailli, Fr., and wic, Sax.], the jurisdiction of a bailiff. A county, in respect of the sheriff's jurisdiction therein. A liberty exempted from a sheriff, over which a
Actor
a proctor or advocate in civil Courts or causes. Actor dominicus, a term often used for the lord's bailiff or attorney. Actor ecclesi' was sometimes the forensic term for the advocate or pleading patron of a church.
High bailiffs
High bailiffs, officers appointed under s. 33 of the County Courts Act, 1888, by the judge of each county Court,
Reeve
Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred,
Moor
the Isle of Man, who summons the Courts for the several sheadings. The officer is similar to our bailiff of a hundred
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