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(slang, obsolete) A parish clerk.
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A bailiff in certain French courts.
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(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.
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(now historical) An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county.
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Obsolete form of bailiwick. [The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.]
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The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
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(obsolete) The jurisdiction of a bailie or bailiff; a bailiwick.
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(historical) title of the Venetian envoy to particularly the Sublime Porte
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Alternative form of bailiwick [The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.]
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A magistrate appointed by the lord-superior in a burgh of barony.
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Obsolete form of bailiff. [(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.]
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A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
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Obsolete form of beadle. [A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.]
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Obsolete form of beadle. [A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.]
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Obsolete form of bookland. [(Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and/or fines. Such was formerly held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.]
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(historical, law) Synonym of tithingman: a peace officer or underconstable.
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(UK, law) A sheriff's officer who serves writs, makes arrests, etc.
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(UK, obsolete) A bound bailiff.
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(UK, law, historical) A chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
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(UK, historical) The presiding judge of the English Exchequer of Pleas.
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(historical) An Irish head tax
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A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord.
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(historical) An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
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(Isle of Man) The administrative head of a sheading.
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Alternative form of derbendci [The guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief.]
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(Britain, Shetland and Orkney) A bailiff or magistrate.
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(historical) A sort of Anglo-Saxon frankpledge for the purpose of keeping order.
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(mining) A superintendent of mines.
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An officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders.
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Obsolete form of usher. [A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.]
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(historical) A huissier de justice, an officer of the court in various European countries roughly similar to a British bailiff.
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(chiefly Scotland) An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
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(Scotland) A judge of the Court of Session.
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(law, Orkney and Shetland) The presiding justice of the supreme court.
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(historical) A lay judge in Orkney.
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(Isle of Man) An officer who acts as a kind of undersheriff to the governor.
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(politics, UK) An office in the government of the United Kingdom, held by a Cabinet minister with responsibility for the efficient functioning and independence of the courts.
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(historical) An officer of the English Crown, charged with physical custody of the Great Seal.
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The fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, the position is now considered to be sinecure.
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A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
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The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
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(Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
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(Scotland) An officer who executes the summonses of the Court of Session.
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(law, Britain) otherwise.
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Alternative form of petit serjeanty [(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring serjeanty (i.e. personal service other than military service) to a mesne lord rather than the king or a lord paramount.]
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(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring serjeanty (i.e. personal service other than military service) to a mesne lord rather than the king or a lord paramount.
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(historical) An office in the Court of Exchequer in which the clerk of the pipe made out crown-land leases.
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(UK, law, historical) A sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the Crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer.
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A magistrate who presides in a police court.
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(historical) A municipal office subordinate to a mayor, (especially) a bailiff.
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One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.
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(historical) A kind of constable in Orkney and Shetland, responsible for investigating minor crimes.
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(UK, historical) A barrister appointed annually by judges to revise the list of voters for Members of Parliament.
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(law) someone who holds a right
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A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
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(historical) An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.
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Alternative form of serjeanty [(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring some service to the land's chief lord—other than military service—as an obligation to maintain possession.]
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Alternative form of serjeanty [(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring some service to the land's chief lord—other than military service—as an obligation to maintain possession.]
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(UK, historical) An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit.
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Obsolete form of serjeanty. [(law, historical) A kind of land tenure requiring some service to the land's chief lord—other than military service—as an obligation to maintain possession.]
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(Britain, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
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(Scotland) The registrar of the Scottish sheriff's court, who has charge of its records.
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(Scotland) An officer of the Scottish sheriff court, responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders within a sheriffdom.
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Obsolete form of sheriff. [(Britain, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.]
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(historical) A local official in Mediaeval England appointed by the King to oversee a shire.
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(UK, obsolete) A sheriff.
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(Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
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(UK, politics) To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.
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(obsolete) The head of a frankpledge
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The official entrusted with the funds and revenues of an organization such as a club.
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(Scotland) water bailiff
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