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deputy sheriff
deputy sheriff : an assistant appointed to take on some of the duties of a sheriff ...
Under-sheriff
Under-sheriff [sub viecomes, Lat.], the sheriff's deputy. See SHERIFF....
deputy
deputy pl: -ties [Middle French deputé person appointed to exercise authority, from past participle of deputer to appoint, depute] 1 : a person appointed as a substitute with power to act 2 : a second in command or assistant who usually takes charge when his or her superior is absent ;specif : deputy sheriff ...
sale
sale 1 a : the transfer of title to property from one party to another for a price ;also : the contract of such a transaction see also short compare barter, donation, exchange, gift absolute sale : a sale that takes place without conditions and with title simply passing to the buyer upon payment of the price compare conditional sale in this entry bulk sale : a sale not in the ordinary course of the seller's business of more than half of the seller's inventory called also bulk transfer NOTE: Article 6 of the Uniform Commercial Code governs bulk sales. Under section 6-102(c), in order for a sale to be considered a bulk sale, the buyer (or an auctioneer or liquidator if the sale is an auction) must have been given notice or been able upon reasonable inquiry to have had notice that the seller will not afterward continue to operate the same or a similar kind of business. cash sale : a sale in which payment must be made in cash NOTE: Under U.C.C. section 2-310, payment must be made ...
Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue.Trial by jury may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of the judicial customs of the Saxons was that a man might be cleared of an accusation of certain crimes, if an appointed number of persons (juratores, or more properly compurgatores) came forward and swore to a veredictum, that they believed him innocent. It is remarkable that for accusations of any consequence among the Saxons on the continent, twelve juratores was the number required for an acquittal. Similar customs may be observed in the laws of Athens and Rome, where dikaotai and judices answer to jurors, an of the continental Angli and Frisiones, though the number of jurors varied.See, as to the introduction and growth of trial by jury in England, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury; and for comments on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, pu...
Deputy
Deputy [fr. depute, Fr.], one who governs and acts instead of another, or who exercises an office, etc., in another man's right.By the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (see SHERIFF), every sheriff is directed to appoint a sufficient deputy having an office within a mile of the Inner Temple Hall, for the receipt of writs, etc.Judges of the Supreme Court cannot act by deputy; but County Court judges can under County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), ss. 11, 12, 15, in case of illness or unavoidable absence; and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 166, enables recorders to appoint deputies in similar cases.As to appointment of deputy to recorder, stipendiary magistrate, or clerk of the peace, in case of inability of recorder, etc., himself to appoint, see the Recorders, Stipendiary Magistrates, and Clerks of the Peace Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 46). A deputy cannot make a deputy, 9 Rep. 49....
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...
Execution of criminals
Execution of criminals, must be performed by the legal officer-the sheriff, or his deputy. The Common Law mode of execution is by hanging, which until 1868 took place in public; but in that year the (English) Capital Punishment Amendment Act (31 & 32 Vict. c. 24), prescribed that the execution must take place within the walls of the prison, in presence of the sheriff, gaoler, chaplain, and surgeon of the prison, and such other officers of the prison as the sheriff requires, or allows. Public execution is, however, still necessary in the case of piracy with attempted murder. See PIRACY....
deputy
One appointed as the substitute of another and empowered to act for him in his name or his behalf a substitute in office a lieutenant a representative a delegate a vicegerent as the deputy of a prince of a sheriff of a township etc...
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, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the reeve was an indepen-dent official, and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary detention. The reeve of the hundred became the deputy of the...
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