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Under-sheriff

Under-sheriff [sub viecomes, Lat.], the sheriff's deputy. See SHERIFF.

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

appointment is gazetted, nominate some fit person to be his under-sheriff; and by s. 24 every sheriff is to appoint a

Bailiwick

or franchise, with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exercises under a sheriff.

Riot Act

hour after proclamation by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal servitude

Solicitor

County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners' Inquests, Under Sheriffs' and Secondaries' Courts, and in the Court of Bankruptcy. the

Inquisition

is the verdict and judgment, after an inquiry before a sheriff and jury, as to the amount of purchase-money or compensation

Centenarii

Centenarii, petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, and judged smaller matters among them, 1 Vent....

Lockman

to execute the orders of the governor, much like our under-sheriff. Also an old Scots term for the hangman; so called

Challenge

is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some

Fieri facias

in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he

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