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In custodia legis

of goods which, from having been already seized by the sheriff under an execution, or being otherwise in the custody of

Great Seal, and in the sovereign's name, addressed to the sheriff of the county where the injury was committed, containing a

Land Clauses Acts, the value can be decided by a sheriff's jury or by arbitration, or if the claim does not

actual tenant would be turned out of possession by the sheriff under a writ of habere facias poss-essionem. The title of

of wreck by district 'receivers' of wreck (as by the sheriffs of the counties under the ancient law), and the suppression

Vicountiel, or Vicontiel, anything that belongs to the sheriffs, as vicontiel writs, i.e. such as are triable in the

as follows:- 1. At Common Law.--A peace officer, i.e., a sheriff, coroner, constable, or any justice of the peace, may arrest

Justicies, a writ directed to the sheriff in some special cases, by virtue of which he might

a person or record before him; the direction of the sheriff to the proper officer to proceed to the election of

(English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, and in Scotland by the sheriff, under s. 12 of the Temperance (Scotland) Act, 1913 (English)