Bailiffs
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An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Officers with judicial and ministerial duties, discussed via statutes and dictionary definitions.
But Magna Carta, in various instances, speaks of sheriffs and bailiffs as “our sheriffs and bailiffs;
) and therefore a fine levied before the baylifes of Salop was reversed, because one of the baylifes was party to the fine, quia non potest esse judex et pars,” (because one cannot be judge and party.
The word bailiff is of Norman origin, and was applied in England, at an early period, (after the example, it is said, of the French,) to the chief magistrates of counties, or shires, such as the alderman, the reeve, or sheriff, and also of inferior jurisdictions, such as hundreds and wapentakes.
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.
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.
The term “bailiff” may be applied to every individual to whom authority of any sort has been delegated by another.
Economics
Estate stewards trained to represent the master, supervise labor, protect property, and increase farm profit.
Well, when I want to make bailiffs of such men, of course I teach them also to be careful.
For my part, then, I don’t choose to put the deserving on a level with the worthless, and when I know that my bailiffs have distributed the best things to the most deserving, I commend them;
but they are not the only lessons I give to those whom I want to appoint my bailiffs.