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单词 bailiff
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bailiff

/ˈbeɪlɪf /
noun
1A sheriff’s officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests.It is correct that at anytime they may seek to enforce their order for possession and, if they have it, execute a warrant for possession by instructing the bailiffs to carry out the warrant....
  • In those circumstances, the police officers were not justified in arresting the bailiff on the ground that he declined to accede to their request that he should leave the building he had lawfully entered.
  • Following his incitement Kelly was taken into custody by a bailiff from the county sheriff's office but was subsequently released on a $50,000 personal recognisance bond.
1.1The agent of a landlord.The landlord took his estates into his own hands, appointed bailiffs and reeves to run them and sell the surplus on the open market....
  • Thieves are posing as bailiffs to break into people's homes to steal TVs and furniture.
  • A stern faced agent accompanied by red-coats and bailiffs, complete with battering ram came to a wayside cottage and preceded to evict the poor tenants but not without some stern resistance.
2North American An official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.He added: ‘If they still fail to leave, county court bailiffs will be sent to evict them with police back up if necessary.’...
  • Gloucester ordered the bailiff to open the gates and behind the door was the most unlikely of persons.
  • Byrd toiled as a bailiff in Brooklyn during the late 1980s, guarding family court judges including Sheindlin.
3British historical The sovereign’s representative in a district, especially the chief officer of a hundred.When his widow died in 1767, her heirs had a bailiff's assessment of her movable property carried out....
  • The principal officer was the bailiff of the hundred, who in 1212 was Gerald de Clayton.
  • Nor any Sheriff, or his Bailiff, shall keep his Turn in the Hundred but twice in the Year.
3.1The first civil officer in the Channel Islands.In the bailiwick of Guernsey the Bailiff's duties are at least as multitudinous: possibly more so, as his jurisdiction covers several islands....
  • Jersey is a Bailiwick, and the Bailiff is the civic head of the Island.
  • In 1725 the Auditor of Land Revenue suggested that a bailiff be appointed for the bailiwick to collect rents.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baillif, inflected form of bailli (see bailie), based on Latin bajulus 'carrier, manager'.

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