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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.
Ex parte talis
Ex parte talis, a writ that lay for a bailiff or receiver, who, having auditors appointed to take his accounts, cannot obtain of them reasonable allowance, but is
Homage
kissed him. Homage could only be done to the lord himself, but fealty might to his steward or bailiff, Co. Litt. 64 a, 68 a. The general name of manorial tenants that do homage. See HOMAGE; JURY.
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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.
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.
Court-leet
judicial character; the ministerial acts of the court,such as empanelling the jury, are executed by the bedel or bailiff, sworn to a due performance of his duty. The steward may fine or imprison, and may take 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
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
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
Adverse possession
secondly, the person setting up dispossession may have been holding under the rightful owner's title, e.g., trustees, guardians, bailiffs or agents. Such persons cannot set up possession averse to their cestui que trust, principal or persons for
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