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How to use bailiff in a sentence

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The hundred bailiff served the sheriff's writs and the constable maintained law and order.
There is a video of the leasehold premises taken by a bailiff around the time the Old Lease was terminated.
A second council was created featuring a Chamberlain, whose main responsibility was finances, and a water bailiff, who collected the bills.
He allegedly claimed he had a 12-bore shotgun and threatened officers, a bailiff and officials with death after they turned up to throw him out.
The principal officer was the bailiff of the hundred, who in 1212 was Gerald de Clayton.
Before the video was over, the bailiff, a police officer in the courtroom, turned it off.
A bogus bailiff is conning youngsters out of their hard earned pocket money, it was claimed today.
The court customary was the court for unfree tenants or villeins and was presided over by the lord's steward or bailiff.
Members may know that under the manorial system, the bailiff, the steward, and the reeve were important officers.
No constable or bailiff can knock at the door and demand entry so as to inspect papers or documents.
The hedge was laid by a veteran Yorkshireman, and the lord of the manor's bailiff was present to see the devoir properly carried out.
Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present.
This created a form of town council, made up of aldermen and chief burgesses, headed by a high bailiff.
There may be room for the assertion that the bailiff was not tactful and that his firmness and size intimidated those in that room.
What would we say, for example, if a juror brought habeas corpus against the bailiff?
Dylan's father is an Environment Agency water bailiff and his mother is a teacher.
On top of all this, he has been given a full-time job as the water bailiff, back at the quarry where he was made redundant some 25 years ago.
Ben, you see, has been promised a job as the water bailiff if they get planning permission to turn the quarry into a trout fishery.
A bailiff leads K through a labyrinthine police precinct populated with people in similar situations.
The bailiff managed the property of the manor and superintended its cultivation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He did a good trade as bailiff and process-server, and at times had considerable sums of money in his possession.
The bailiff of the Castle was ex officio mayor of the town in the Middle Ages.
All it does is give evidence that your friend and partner will be on the job when the bailiff yells oyez, oyez, oyez.
If any one happen to fall into my amercement he may be reasonably fined by my bailiff and the faithful burgesses of the court.
Arendt left and went past his own home to Stra, which was the residence of the Danish bailiff.
The three distinguished characters were a spendthrift, a bailiff, and a dun.
And the bailiff will have things all his own way at Loreng for a year or two.
It was he that wore the carabineer's uniform when they took the Duca di Fornasco's bailiff.
And they went by train with the bailiff from the farm, who was going in about some sheep-dip and to buy pigs.
The bailiff was to be chosen every year in the moot hall and to be assisted by fourteen principal burgesses and a recorder.
Among those who suffered most from their wounds was the bailiff of Negropont.
With this the venireman attempted to get away from the bailiff, but Soloman held on to him with a vise-like grasp.
John Ferrar had been employed by Squire Todhetley as a sort of overlooker on the estate, or working bailiff.
In England the sheriff is the monarch's bailiff, and his county is a bailiwick.
He was the bailiff Scroope, whom you put up to witness against me.
The archers doffed caps at the sight of it, and the bailiff crossed himself devoutly as he handed it to the robber.
Presently a bailiff was seen pushing his way up through the crowd.
Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland, to look after his new estate.
Cruncher stood at his side, and touched him on the shoulder like a ghostly bailiff.
Were you not going to outrageously attack and pillage your lord, the bailiff of the palace?
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