Bailiwick - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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 bailiff is appointed by the lord of the liberty or franchise, with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exercises under a sheriff....
Balliva
Balliva, a bailiwick or jurisdiction, Old Records. See BAILIWICK....
Non omittas
Non omittas, the clause 'that you omit not by reason of any liberty in your bailiwick,' which is usually inserted in all processes addressed to sheriffs, which makes the liberty pro hac vice parcel of the sheriff's bailiwick, and the sheriff must enter and execute the writ within the liberty.If a writ 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....
Bailiffwick
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Bailiwick
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction the limits of a bailiffs authority...
Bow-bearer
Bow-bearer, an under-officer of the forest whose duty it was to oversee and true inquisition make, as well of sworn men as unsworn, in every bailiwick of the forest; and of all manner of trespasses done, either to vert or venison, and cause them to be presented without any concealment, in the next Court of attachment, etc., Crompt. Juris. 201...
Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium
Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto, non eligendo in officium, a writ directed to those who have thrust a bailiwick or other office upon one in holy orders, charging them to release him, Ibid. 143....
Non est inventus
Non est inventus, a sheriff's return to a writ when the defendant is not to be found in his bailiwick....
Ranger
Ranger, a sworn officer of the forest and parks. His office consists chiefly in three points: to walk daily through his charge, and see, hear, and inquire of trespasses in his bailiwick; to drive the beasts of the forest, both of vinery and chase, out of the dis-afforested into the forested lands; and to present all trespasses of the forest at the next Court holden for the forest, Manwood. Also an official in control of royal parks...
Regard of the forest
Regard of the forest, the oversight or inspection of it, or the office and province of the regarder, who is to go through the whole forest, and every bailiwick in it, before the holding of the sessions of the forest, or justice-seat, to see and inquire after trespassers, and for the survey of dogs, Manw....
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