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Under-sheriff
Matched in: Term Under-sheriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Matched in: Term Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Challenge
the favour. (1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his
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Fieri facias
him who has recovered any debt or damages in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he 'cause to be made' the sum recovered by
Bailiwick
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
In custodia legis
the keeping of the law), a term used of goods which, from having been already seized by the sheriff under an execution, or being otherwise in the custody of the law, are exempt from distress for rent.
Original Writ or Original
Court of Chancery (see now CHANCERY), under the Great Seal, and in the sovereign's name, addressed to the sheriff of the county where the injury was committed, containing a summary statement of the cause of complaint, andrequiring
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (English)
21 Geo. 5, c. 44). Again, under the Land Clauses Acts, the value can be decided by a sheriff's jury or by arbitration, or if the claim does not exceed 50l., by two justices of the peace.
Riot Act
the peace, and do not disperse within one hour after proclamation by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal servitude for life, originally by death
Ejectment
would suffer judgment by default, by which the actual tenant would be turned out of possession by the sheriff under a writ of habere facias poss-essionem. The title of the action, after the tenant's appearance, stood thus:'Doe
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