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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...


Rape-reeve

Rape-reeve, an officer who used to act in subordination to the shire-reeve....


Borough-reeve

Borough-reeve, the chief municipal officer in towns unincorporated before the Municipal Corporations Act, 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 76....


Land-reeve

Land-reeve, a person whose business is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste, and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others; and to report the same to the manager or land-steward.Means a person charged with (1) overseeing certain parts of a farm or estate (2) attending to the timber, fences, gates, buildings, private roads, and water-courses, (3) stocking the commons, (4) watering for encroachments of all kinds, (5) preventing and detecting waste and spoliation by tenants and others, and (6) reporting on findings to the manger or land steward, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....


Sea-reeve

Sea-reeve, an officer in maritime towns and places who takes care of the maritime rights of the lord of the manor, watches the shore, and collects the wreck....


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 ...


Shire-reeve

Shire-reeve, a sheriff, which see....


Soke-reeve

Soke-reeve, the lord's rent-gatherer in the soca....


Trithing-reeve

Trithing-reeve, a governor of a trithing....


sheriff

sheriff [Old English scīrgerēfa, from scīr shire + gerēfa reeve (king's agent)] : an official of a county or parish charged primarily with judicial duties (as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges) ...


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