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How to use sheriff in a sentence

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He can appeal to the High Court of Justiciary if a sheriff decides to extradite him.
The worst corporate bandits are still likely to face a sheriff who's quick on the draw.
In 1773 he became sheriff of Bedford, where an inspection of the local jail quickened his interest in the sufferings of prisoners.
It was his duty as acting sheriff until his brother was back to protect her.
There was enough of a gap before seeing the county sheriff for a breathalyser test to be worthless.
These relate to the conduct of officers of the registry of the Supreme Court and of officers of the sheriff of that court.
Your Honour, the terms were to continue until notified to present himself to the sheriff.
If he returns bona vacentia on the goods, then the writ which may be registered on the title can then be enforced by sale by the sheriff.
Special bailiffs are officers appointed by the sheriff at the request of a plaintiff for the purpose of executing a particular process.
Thereafter the country was organized into a series of principal sheriffships with sheriff substitutes designated for every county town.
The shire court and the sheriff are among the most important Anglo-Saxon legacies to later medieval government.
It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance.
Books must deal with the local sheriff, an eager mortician, and a nosey reporter who all want a piece of the dying legend.
We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit.
All of the evidence came from the uncorroborated testimony of a private informant hired by the sheriff to conduct the sting operation.
A few weeks ago, an Alabama sheriff was arrested for underfeeding his inmates and pocketing the leftover meal money.
The sheriff and his undersheriff accompanied the FBI special agent to the property.
The Rock is fittingly cast as the small-town sheriff who endeavours to turn his wayward town straight.
The young sheriff scratched his head and the well-dressed man broke into the conversation.
His reason is that he, as sheriff, was bullwhipped in the street by the bad guys a while ago, and these same people just stood and watched.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No sheriff, undersheriff, or county clerk shall enter any complaints in their books unless the complaining party is present.
He was an orator of the conceptions of his predecessors and superiors, an arguer of the case, a sheriff to execute a writ.
In England the sheriff is the monarch's bailiff, and his county is a bailiwick.
The savage way in which he bayed the sheriff, however, and tried to get at him as Liz held him in leash, was really surprising.
The writ was specially directed to the sheriff at Toronto, the sheriff at Brantford and the jail keeper at Brantford.
At Chelmsford the sheriff of Suffolk met them, there to receive him, and to carry him into Suffolk.
At Chelmsford he was delivered to the sheriff of Suffolk, and by him conducted to Hadley.
Baldwin de Moels, or Moules, was the sheriff, and his descendants bore mules on their coat armour.
We might ask you for the welcome that is due to the commissioners of a sheriff.
When the sheriff read it, even his wife thought best to slip away, for he was the crossest man in Nottingham.
Del Rio, seated smoking a cigar, looked up with curious eyes which did not miss the two men following the sheriff.
In Scotland they were held to belong to the crown or its donatory, usually the sheriff of a county.
Emboldened by the sight of the sheriff, Mr. Doolittle again had recourse to his lungs.
So the sheriff sat there thinking, while doty watched the attack from the window.
In a dozen jerky sentences the owner of the fiddleback told Flandrau of the suspicions of the sheriff.
The form of the writ of fieri facias requires the sheriff to make a return to the writ.
The sheriff and his deputies had been in front up to this time, but they now took a position in rear of the two companies.
I was wanted at Johnstown by sheriff Frey, on some matter which would not wait for the morrow.
And you do want to bring that slider boy with you when you come to talk with the sheriff.
The sheriff could be sued for misfeasance such as bribery in the King's court.
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