Sheriff vs. Bailiff

Sheriffnoun

(High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.

Sheriffnoun

(Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.

Sheriffnoun

(US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in his county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.

Sheriffverb

To carry out the duties of a sheriff

Sheriffnoun

The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.

Sheriffnoun

the principal law-enforcement officer in a county

Sheriff

A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous although independently developed office in Iceland that is commonly translated to English as sheriff, and this is discussed below.

Bailiffnoun

(law enforcement) An officer of the court, particularly:

Bailiffnoun

A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.

Bailiffnoun

(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.

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(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.

Bailiffnoun

Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.

Bailiffnoun

A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.

Bailiffnoun

A public administrator, particularly:

Bailiffnoun

(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.

Bailiffnoun

(historical) The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.

Bailiffnoun

The title of the mayor of certain English towns.

Bailiffnoun

The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.

Bailiffnoun

The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Bailiffnoun

The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.

Bailiffnoun

(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.

Bailiffnoun

(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.

Bailiffnoun

(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.

Bailiffnoun

(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.

Bailiffnoun

A private administrator, particularly Steward

Bailiffnoun

(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.

Bailiffnoun

(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).

Bailiffnoun

The foreman or overman of a mine.

Bailiffnoun

Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.

Bailiffnoun

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 powers of custody or care are intrusted.

Bailiffnoun

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

Bailiffnoun

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

Bailiffnoun

an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.

Bailiff

A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French baillis, bail cf. bail, based on the adjectival form, baiulivus, of Latin bajulus, carrier, manager) is a manager, overseer or custodian; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given.