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(historical) An officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.
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(obsolete) An officer appointed to test the ale and bread in a parish or town.
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(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
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(historical) In the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
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An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
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Alternative form of bail bondsman [A person who provides bail bonds, and takes responsibility for the court appearances of the persons to whom such bonds are issued.]
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A person who is granted bail.
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(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
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(historical) A lit de justice, in French history.
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(Britain, obsolete, law) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
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A sheriff’s officer, usually one who arrests debtors.
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The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
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The highest-ranking corporate officer handling the legal affairs of a corporation, or agency.
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(historical) A person employed by the English Exchequer and its successors to work in the pipe office maintaining the pipe rolls on which government income and expenditure were recorded.
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(UK, dated) an official in the bond office whose duties included collecting duty on imported goods and issuing the relevant documentation.
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(Scotland, law) The judge in a commissary court.
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A form of manorial court for unfree tenants or villeins
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(historical) A directory of the names and addresses of the nobility and gentry in a town.
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Alternative form of court of honor [(architecture, US) Cour d'honneur.]
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(UK) High Court of Chivalry.
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(obsolete, thieves' cant) A Justice of the Peace.
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(historical, UK except Scotland, Jamaica) The main justice of the peace in a given county.
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Alternative form of irenarch [(historical) An officer in Ancient Greece having functions corresponding to those of a Justice of the Peace.]
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Alternative form of escheator [(England and Wales law) A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.]
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(England and Wales law) A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.
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(archaic) A land bailiff.
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Obsolete form of escheator. [(England and Wales law) A royal officer in medieval and early modern England, responsible for taking escheats from deceased subjects.]
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(UK, law) An ancient officer of the Court of Wards
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The role or position of feoffee.
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(English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
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(Britain, law, obsolete) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
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A declaration by a magistrate.
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(historical) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting-house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the Lord Steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the vicinity of the palace.
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(law) An officer of the court in several European countries who serves processes and notices, seizes and auctions off property, and executes garnishments, levies, and evictions, roughly similar to British bailiffs or private constables in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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The higher branch of the Scottish Court of Session, its jurisdiction chiefly appellate.
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Synonym of Jeddart justice
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A magistrate of Channel Islands, serving for life, who forms part of the islands' royal court.
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(fantasy) A representative and enforcer of the king or ruler's justice.
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(historical) A high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
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A female judge, as in "Her Lady Justice."
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One of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, a group of judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords in order to exercise its judicial function.
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(law, historical) One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.
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(historical) A person who was restored to his estate by letters of Charles II of England.
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(historical) A special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.
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Any of several forms of court, in medieval and early modern Europe, provided by the lord of the manor for his tenants.
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(law, obsolete) In English common law, a person empowered to take bail and capture a person who forfeits it.
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The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
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(law) The equitable jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.
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(Britain, law, historical) In full court of piepowders (also court of piepowder) or piepowder court: an ancient court in England held in conjunction with a fair or a market to administer summary justice over occurrences therein such as disputes between merchants and acts of theft and violence; they were presided over by the mayor and bailiffs of the borough, or by the steward if the fair or market was held by a lord.
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(Britain) A member of the office which deals with the monarch's finances.
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A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland.
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(historical) A constable: a medieval or early modern official charged with arresting, holding, and punishing criminals.
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A statute of Edward I by which the Scottish gentry and nobility were compelled to swear allegiance to the English king
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(UK, historical) A person employed to evaluate the cases of people applying for relief, and to allocate funds or authorize entry to the workhouse.
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(Britain) Any of several former officials in the Court of Exchequer.
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(UK, law, historical) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
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(law, historical) Alternative form of soc and sac [(UK, law, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.]
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An officer responsible for sealing writs or instruments, stamping weights and measures, etc.
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(law) Short for serjeant-at-law. [(historical) A member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar, who for many centuries had exclusive jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas.]
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(historical) A member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar, who for many centuries had exclusive jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas.
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Obsolete form of sergeantship. [The qualities, role, or position of a sergeant.]
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(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in his county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
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(Scotland, historical) The sheriff proper, so called since the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1748 to distinguish him from the earlier heritable sheriff-principal, whose title is now merged into that of the Lord-Lieutenant.
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(Scotland) The acting sheriff in a Scottish county or city, like the sheriff-depute appointed by the Crown, but unlike the sheriff-depute forced to reside within his judicial district, and forbidden to take other employment.
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The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.
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(historical) An English court of the county held periodically by the sheriff together with the bishop or the ealdorman.
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The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff
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(UK, law, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.
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(law, historical) Alternative form of soc and sac. [(UK, law, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts.]
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(UK, US, law) An authority appointed by a judge to make sure that judicial orders are actually followed.
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(Britain, rare) The legal institution which administered for the stannary parliament.
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(historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
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A secondary or subsidiary bailiff.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury.
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(historical) A form of tenure, in ancient Scotland and Ireland, whereby succession was passed to an elected member of the same extended family.
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(UK, law, obsolete) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer (the other being the postman).
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The area of jurisdiction of an undersheriff.
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A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
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(Scotland) A person who holds tenure by wadset.
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(historical) In English feudal law, the guardianship which the lord had of the land of his vassal while the latter was an infant or minor.
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A law enforcement officer who polices bodies of water, such as rivers, lake or coastal waters.
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