Bailiff - Law Dictionary Search Results
Negotiorum gestor
law will, in many cases oblige him to account to them in or for the profits as his bailiff; for it will be presumed that he entered to take them in trust for the infant, See Wall
Non omittas
do not contain a non omittas clause, the sheriff directs his mandate either to the lord or the bailiff of the liberty, by whom the writ is executed and returned.
Pour faire proclaimer
Pour faire proclaimer, an ancient writ addressed to the may or bailiff of a city or town, requiring him to make proclamation concerning nuisances, etc., Fitz. N.B. 176.
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Praepositus
an officer next in authority to the alderman of a hundred, called pr'positus regius; or a steward or bailiff of an estate, answering to the wicnere, Anc. Inst. Eng. Also the person from whom descents are traced
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc
a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office, Reg. Brev. 187.
Reve, or Greve
Reve, or Greve, the bailiff of a franchise or manor, an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle
Replevin
he avowed taking the distress in his own right; where, on the other hand, it was against the bailiff or servant, he made cognizance--that is, he acknowledged the taking in right of the principal or landlord; and
Reve
Reve, means the bailiff of a franchise or manor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1319.
Reveland
granted out to any by the king, but rested in charge upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor, Spelm. Feuds, c. 24.
Sufferance, Tenancy at
determination of his interest in them, is never considered a tenant by sufferance, but he is deemed a bailiff of his own wrong, and so accountable to the Crown, but after office found he becomes absolute intruder.
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