Bailiff 1) A court official, usually a peace officer or deputy sheriff, who keeps order in the courtroom and handles errands for the judge and clerk. 2) In some jurisdictions, ...
Bailiff: The court attendant in charge of maintaining order in the courtroom.
Water bailiffs also exist in England and Wales to police bodies of water and prevent illegal fishing. They are generally employees of the Environment Agency.
Bailiff
(n) Bailiff is the custodian appointed or otherwise assigned by a court to hold the custody of an incompetent person, properties involved in the legal process and help the jury, judges and court staff in the court procedures.
BAILIFF - a law enforcement officer, usually a sheriff, marshal or constable, assigned to a courtroom to keep peace and assist the judge, courtroom clerks, witnesses and jury.
Bailiff:
A person who is appointed under the Debt Collection Act who will act or assist any other person to repossess, cease or distrain pursuant to conditions set out in various Acts.
bailiff
n. 1) a court official, who keeps order in the courtroom and handles various errands for the judge and clerk. 2) in some jurisdictions, ...
bailiff - A court officer whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury.
Bailiff - An officer of the court responsible for keeping order and maintaining appropriate courtroom decorum and has custody of the jury.
Bailiff: An official of the county court who enforces the judgements and delivers notices, summonses and other such documents.
bailiff - A court officer who often swears in witnesses, escorts juries and maintains the civility in the courtroom.
balloon payment - A large payment due at the end of a loan.
Bailiff: Court officer responsible for keeping order in the court, custody of the jury, and custody of prisoners while in court.
BAILIFF, office. Magistrates who for merly administered justice in the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English sheriffs as mentioned by Bracton.
Bailiff
A court attendant who keeps order in the courtroom and has custody of the jury.
bailiff: A person that is in charge of security in the court. Bailiffs are picked by sheriffs or marshals.
BAILIFF : A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury. ...
bailiff A courtroom clerk or attendant, whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and maintaining custody of the jury.
Bailiff - A court employee who maintains order in the courtroom and who is responsible for the custody of the jury, among other functions.
Bailiff
A court official usually classified as a peace officer (sometimes as a deputy sheriff, or marshal) and usually wearing a uniform.
A bailiff's main job is to maintain order in the courtroom.
bailiff
n. 1) a court official, usually a deputy sheriff, who keeps order in the courtroom and handles various errands for the judge and clerk. 2) in some jurisdictions, ...
Bailiff
Definition - Noun
[Anglo-French, steward, king's official, from bail stewardship, custody, handing over see bail]
: an officer of some courts in the U.S. whose duties usu.
BAILIFF
account render. A bailiff is a person who has, by delivery, the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the owner or bailor, and... more ...
Expanded Legal Definition of BailBailiff A person acting with legal authority in the seizure of personal property.
Bailiff An officer of the court, usually a sheriff's deputy, whose duty is to protect everyone within the court and to carry out every order of the judge.
May also include a Small Claims Court bailiff. Now called Enforcement Officers.Show Cause HearingA hearing where the prosecutor must "show cause" that the accused should be held in custody until the trial.
The deputy receives and opens in the sheriff's name all writs, the return or execution of which belongs to the bailiff of the liberty, and issues to the bailiff the warrant required for the due execution of such writs.
Saxon shire, a part sheared off: a division, county; and reeve, a bailiff, officer. 1 Bl. Com. 116, 117, 339; 54 Pa. 275.
Minute book - A book maintained by the courtroom deputy (bailiff), which contains minute entries of all hearings and trial conducted by the judge.
Minutes - Memorandum of a transaction or proceeding.
The first office is the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds (Stoke, Desborough and Burnham) and the second office is the Manor of Northstead.
bailiff - A court officer or attendant who has charge of a court session in the matter of keeping order and custody of the jury.
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