Bound Bailiffs - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bound bailiffsBound-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....
Bum-Bailiff
Bum-Bailiff, a person employed to dun one for a debt; the bailiff employed to arrest for debt. See BOUND-BAILIFFS....
Sheriff's Officers
Sheriff's Officers, bailiffs, who are either bailiffs of hundreds or bound-bailiffs....
Bumbailiff
See Bound bailiff under Bound a...
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....
Bailiff-errant
Bailiff-errant, a bailiff's deputy. See OUTRIDERS....
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....
Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth
Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth, The opening words of s. 191 'whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth........' do not support the submission that a man who is not bound under the law to make an affidavit, can if he does make one, deliberately retrain from stating truthfully the facts which are within his knowledge. The meaning of these words is that whenever in a court of law a person binds himself on oath to state the truth he is bound to state the truth and he cannot be heard to say that he should not have gone into the witness box or should not have made an affidavit and therefore the submission that any false statement which he had made after taking the oath is not covered by the words of s. 191, IPC is not supportable. Whenever a man makes a statement in court on oath he is bound to state the truth and if he does not, he makes himself liable under the provisions of s. 193. It...
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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