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REEVE. The name of an ancient English officer of justice, inferior in rank to an alderman.
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of the Quadripartitus, then of a number of short notices and extracts like the fragments on the "wedding of a wife," on oaths, on ordeals, on the king's peace, on rural customs (Rectitudines singularum personarum), the treatises on the reeve (gerefa) ...
Saxon shire, a part sheared off: a division, county; and reeve, a bailiff, officer. 1 Bl. Com. 116, 117, 339; 54 Pa. 275.
[Old English scIrgerEfa, from scIr shire + gerEfa reeve (king's agent)]
: an official of a county or parish charged primarily with judicial duties (as executing the processes and orders of courts and judges) ...
 See also: State, Court, Law, Power, Trust
  
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