bailiff
(noun) an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Bailiff (plural Bailiffs)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bailiff is the 29366th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 805 individuals. Bailiff is most common among White (91.18%) individuals.
bailiff (plural bailiffs)
(law enforcement) An officer of the court, particularly
(historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
A public administrator, particularly:
(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.
(historical) The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.
(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.
A private administrator, particularly
(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
(historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine.
(UK, slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
Although bailiff is the most common term in American English for the law-enforcement officers who provide security and maintain order in a courtroom, such officers are often formally known by other titles, which vary by jurisdiction.
• (British law enforcement officer): high bailiff, high-bailiff; warrant officer, beadle (in role of executing warrants); catchpoll, bumbailiff (in role of arresting debtors); process server (in role of serving processes and summonses)
• (mayor): High-bailiff, High Bailiff; see also mayor
• (castellan): See castellan
• (officer of the Channel Islands): bailly
• (Scottish alderman): See bailie
• (medieval French magistrate): consul (southern France); capitoul (Toulouse); jurat (Bordeaux)
• (medieval German magistrate): See landvogt
• (medieval administrator): See steward
• (medieval overseer): See overseer
• bumbailiff
• circuit court bailiff
• district court bailiff
• farm bailiff
• magistrates' bailiff
• jury bailiff
• private bailiff
• provincial bailiff
Source: Wiktionary
Bail"iff, n. Etym: [OF. baillif, F. bailli, custodiabajulus porter. See Bail to deliver.]
1. Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.
2. (Eng. Law)
Definition: A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
Note: In American law the term bailiff is seldom used except sometimes to signify a sheriff's officer or constable, or a party liable to account to another for the rent and profits of real estate. Burrill.
3. An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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