Bailiffs
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Officers with judicial and ministerial duties, discussed via statutes and dictionary definitions.
Bailiffe.
“Bailiff, (from the Lat.
*—Burrill’s Law Dictionary.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
A broad category of local officials exercising delegated Crown authority, including those who served writs and distrained goods.
The term “bailiff” may be applied to every individual to whom authority of any sort has been delegated by another.
No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take corn or other provisions from any one without immediately tendering money therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the seller.
The sheriff and his bailiffs were forbidden to touch a single chattel of a deceased Crown tenant, unless they came armed with legal warrant in the form of royal letters patent vouching the existence and the amount of the Crown debt.
Economics
Estate stewards trained to represent the master, supervise labor, protect property, and increase farm profit.
for I keep bailiff’s on my farms.
I think he must learn to rule the labourers.
Of course I try to train them myself, Socrates.