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By the time they got to Virginia they were quite used to setting up counties and electing sheriffs and bailiffs.
They want an amendment that would require sheriffs to pay more attention to the rights of the child in marital disputes.
So there are police officers, county sheriffs out there directing the traffic.
And the spokeswoman for the Broward County sheriffs office candidly stated that we did that because of the media hype.
Certain Oklahoman sheriffs have grumpily muttered that they have better things to do than deal with stuff like this.
Killings and gunplay were rare, sheriffs, then marshals, then police, common.
As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation.
In England, from the later middle ages, justices of the peace rose to ascendancy as county authorities, marginalizing sheriffs.
Between them and die jail stood a wall of city police officers, sheriffs deputies, and Alabama state troopers.
Scotland's sheriffs and judges are already ranked among the most lenient in Europe.
Unsalaried county sheriffs in Mobile and throughout the South received sizable allotments from state coffers to house and feed prisoners.
In 2006, those sheriffs rode into town slinging rhetoric and pretending to have a silver bullet for every criminal offence.
It was grand, loud, had delicious swagger, guns, sheriffs, goodies and baddies, and was adapted from a Cormac McCarthy novel.
A total of 165 sheriffs and bailiffs outside Quebec have knowledge of French and 440 in Quebec have knowledge of English.
There were several clashes between farmers and the bailiffs and sheriffs who were sent out to collect rents.
Canadians want those bumbling sheriffs to wake up and smell the gun smoke from the streets of Vancouver to the buses in Toronto.
The sheriffs performed much the same duties as their English counterparts, while judicial eyres administered justice, at least for the English settlers.
Judges, sheriffs and advocates are to be asked to remove their wigs and gowns and stop using arcane language under plans to make Scottish courts less intimidating.
Disagreement between sheriffs ignited a delayed reaction to a 2011 Iowa law that allows the blind to get concealed-carry permits.
A proposed reform bill in Georgia won the opposition of the state's sheriffs and in March died in the legislature for the second straight year.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was at once resolved to direct the sheriffs to raise the posse comitatus.
Three sheriffs and three mayors this year by means of the sweating sickness, etc.
The intervening sea is one over which the most penetrating of Argus-eyed policemen or sheriffs, can not see.
No only sheriffs, but their employees who impanel juries or execute process in the courts shall take an oath of office.
Because many sheriffs had taken fines and ransoms for their own use, a term limit of one year was imposed.
The king had caused sheriffs and other placemen to be elected into Parliament to increase his facility of obtaining grants.
What were policemen doing in this country of range and sheriffs?
Brownlow and Oliver appeared at the wicket, and presented an order of admission to the prisoner, signed by one of the sheriffs.
Posse comitatus is the legal power of sheriffs and other officials to summon armed citizens to aid in keeping the peace.
This reform recognized the problem of some of the unsalaried English sheriffs who had used their office for personal enrichment.
Well, it was noble to see Launcelot and the boys swarm up onto that scaffold and heave sheriffs and such overboard.
In response to this new-fangled crime spree, Southwestern sheriffs and other lawmen took to the roads in their own horseless carriages.
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