Bailiff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BAILIFF in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the agent of a landlord.
• an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc.
• the first civil officer in the Channel Islands.
• Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
• A sheriff\'s deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
• An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
• an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
• a sheriff's officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests.
• the sovereign's representative in a district, especially the chief officer of a hundred.
• sheriff's officer who serves writs and summonses
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a court officer
• sheriff\'s officer who serves writs and summonses

Words related to BAILIFF

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Words that contain BAILIFF

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How to use BAILIFF in a sentence

• Indeed, Maskew seemed to know the bailiff, for he passed the time of day with him, and was then for sitting down at the table without taking any notice of Elzevir or me.
• This little disposition made, as well as all other preliminary matters properly observed, the bailiff seemed satisfied with himself and his arrangements, for the moment.
• The bailiff whispered the prior significantly, and from that moment his deportment towards the Genoese took still more of the character of formal and official respect.
• Convinced by his success that God was with him, Tell confessed, that, if the matter had gone wrong, he would have had his revenge upon the Bailiff.
• Our goods were disposed of on the premises, and the neighbours arranged a mock sale, at which the bailiff winked.
• The father and head of the house, having been employed upon one farm for the last thirty years or more, though nominally carter, is really a kind of bailiff.
• I understand, according to your theory, how a bailiff must be taught.
• You are no longer a bailiff on this estate, and I have the further satisfaction to assure you, that in consequence of a private interview I had with the new bishop, the Right Rev.
• Pressing through this solid mass of human beings, the bailiff led him to a seat directly in front of the bench of judges, and there left him.
• After an absence of about fifteen minutes, the jury, led by a bailiff, returned to the court-room.
• On Wednesday morning, again attended by the high and low bailiff, they proceeded, on foot, to inspect Mr.
• The good bailiff had been heartily liked and respected in his little sphere.
• Among these the bailiff, now red with anger, shook his fist at the people and demanded the meaning of the disturbance.
• David was enjoying his holiday sitting under an orange-tree with his wife, and father, and little Lucien, when the bailiff from Mansle appeared.
• The landowner in the illustration is consulting with his bailiff over a rather puzzling little question.
• On Friday the execution was put in, and, on its being found impossible to find anybody to act as bailiff, Mr.
• He began to hate the sight of his farm, and left it entirely to the bailiff.
• Stay at home to-morrow, bailiff, and you, smith of Kunau, and send for the other Germans round, on whom we can depend.
• Thither the man was to drive the cattle, and to keep a sharp look-out for the bailiff, who was to have the management of the wood-party.
• Kohlhaas, meanwhile, had bought back his farm at Kohlhaasenbrueck from the honest bailiff, in return for a small compensation for the loss sustained.
• The Bailiff was the local representative of the Abbey of Seez already referred to.
• Senart, the secretary of the committee of public safety was bailiff of Sache before 1781, which explains this destruction.
• What should she do? She never thought of appeal to courts, for Colonel Cresswell was Justice of the Peace and his son was bailiff.
• The bailiff, a wolfish-looking creature, who was always to be had for drink, also sat there trailing his vast loose moustache over a table.

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