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Definition: Bailiff |
BailiffNoun1. An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bailiff" was first used: some time around 1242. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect. If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying to work for your money. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Bailiff At Constantinople, the person who had charge of the imperial children used to be called the bajulus, from baios, a child. The word was subsequently attached to the Venetian consul at Constantinople, and the Venetian ambassador was called the balio, a word afterwards extended to any superintendent or magistrate. In France the bailli was a superintendent of the royal domains and commander of the troops. In time, any superintendent of even a private estate was so called, whence our farmer's bailiff. The sheriff is the king's bailiff - a title now applied almost exclusively to his deputies or officers. (See Bumbailiff.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | Eng. A name formerly used for manager of a mine. (references) |
Occupations | Maintains order in courtroom during trial and guards jury from outside contact: Checks courtroom for security and cleanliness. Assures availability of sundry supplies for use of JUDGE (government ser.). Enforces courtroom rules of behavior and warns persons not to smoke or disturb court procedure. Collects and retains unauthorized firearms from persons entering courtroom. Stops people from entering courtroom while JUDGE (government ser.) charges jury. Provides jury escort to restaurant and other areas outside of courtroom to prevent jury contact with public. Guards lodging of sequestered jury. Reports need for police or medical assistance to sheriff's office. May advise attorneys of dress required of witnesses. May announce entrance of JUDGE (government ser.). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bailiff (from Late Lat. bajulivus, adjectival form of bajulus is a governor or custodian; cf. Bail), a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly.
The term was first applied in England to the king's officers generally, such as sheriffs, mayors, etc., and more particularly to the chief officer of a hundred. The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, etc. Under the manorial system, the bailiff, the steward and the reeve were important officers; the bailiff managed the property of the manor and superintended its cultivation (see Walter of Henley, Husbandry, R. Hist. Soc., 1890).
The bailiff of a franchise or liberty is the officer who executes writs and processes, and impanels juries within the franchise. He is appointed by the lord of such franchise (who, in the Sheriffs Act 1887, § 34, is referred to as the bailiff of the franchise).
The bailiff of a sheriff is an under-officer employed by a sheriff within a county for the purpose of executing writs, processes, distraints and arrests. As a sheriff is liable for the acts of his officers acting under his warrant, his bailiffs are annually bound to him in an obligation with sureties for the faithful discharge of their office, and thence are called bound bailiffs. They are also often called bum-bailiffs, or, shortly, bums. The origin of this word is uncertain; the New English Dictionary suggests that it is in allusion to the mode of catching the offender. Special bailiffs are officers appointed by the sheriff at the request of a plaintiff for the purpose of executing a particular process. The appointment of a special bailiff relieves the sheriff from all responsibility until the party is arrested and delivered into the sheriff's actual custody.
By the County Courts Act 1888, it is provided that there shall be one or more high-bailiffs, appointed by the judge and removable by the lord-chancellor; and every person discharging the duties of high-bailiff is empowered to appoint a sufficient number of able and fit persons as bailiffs to assist him, whom he can dismiss at his pleasure. The duty of the high-bailiff is to serve all summonses and orders, and execute all the warrants, precepts and writs issued out of the court. The high bailiff is responsible for all the acts and defaults of himself, and of the bailiffs appointed to assist him, in the same way as a sheriff of a county is responsible for the acts and defaults of himself and his officers. By the same act (§49) bailiffs are answerable for any connivance, omission or neglect to levy any such execution. No action can be brought against a bailiff acting under order of the court without six days' notice (§52). Any warrant to a bailiff to give possession of a tenement justifies him in entering upon the premises named in the warrant, and giving possession, provided the entry be made between the hours of 9 A.M. and 4 P.M. (§ 142). The Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888 enacts that no person may act as a bailiff to levy any distress for rent, unless he is authorized by a county-court judge; to act as a bailiff.
In the Channel Islands the bailiff is the first civil officer in each island. He is appointed by the crown, and generally holds office for life. He presides at the royal court, and takes the opinions of the jurats; he also presides over the states, and represents the crown in all civil matters. Though he need not necessarily have had legal training, he is usually selected from among those who have held some appointment at the island bar.
In the United States the word bailiff has no special significance. It is sometimes applied to the officer who takes charge of juries and waits upon the court. The officer who corresponds to the English sheriff's bailiff is termed a deputy or under-sheriff.
The Scottish form of this post is the Bailie, and the French form was Bailli.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bailiff."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consignee | Functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum; (director); caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta. |
Director | Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator. |
Jurisdiction | Officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel; tithingman. |
Servant | Bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bailiff |
| English words defined with "bailiff": bailiffship, bailiwick, Baillie, Boroughmaster, Bound bailiff, Bumbailiff, Burghmaster ♦ Estreat ♦ Greeve, Ground bailiff ♦ High bailiff, Hundreder ♦ Nuthook ♦ Shire reeve ♦ tipstaff ♦ Water bailiff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bailiff": Bajulus ♦ CATCH POLE, colliery bailiff ♦ DEPUTY, COURT ♦ FOOL FINDER ♦ Keys ♦ Spunging House. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bailiff": Bailie, Bailiwick, Bumbailiff ♦ Landamman. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm a bailiff. I stand. (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) | |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | No bailiff for the future shall, upon his own unsupported complaint, put anyone to his "law", without credible witnesses brought for this purposes. (reference) |
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Human Rights | Latvia | A major difficulty in enforcing court decisions is the continuing lack of an effective bailiff or sheriff system. (references) |
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| "Bailiff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.20% of the time. "Bailiff" is used about 167 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.2% | 164 | 24,408 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.6% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 167 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bailiff" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bailiff | Last name | 300 | 26,845 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bailiff". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baylee | Male, Female | English | A bailiff |
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Expressions using "bailiff": Bound bailiff ♦ Ground bailiff ♦ High bailiff ♦ water bailiff. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "bailiff": high-bailiff, water-bailiff. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bailiff | 80 |
bailiff uk | 32 |
bailiff contact | 9 |
bailiff bc | 6 |
bailiff judge mathis | 5 |
bailiff elite | 5 |
bailiff central north | 4 |
court bailiff | 4 |
accurate bailiff | 4 |
bailiff certificated | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bailiff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qehaja (reeve), përmbarues (executor), ndihmëssherif, administrator (administrator, bursar, manager, procurator). (various references) | |
Arabic | مساعد المأمور, وكيل مزرعة, حاجب محكمة (crier), رسول محكمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдебен пристав (catchpoll, tipstaff), съдия-изпълнител (receiver), управител на имение (estate agent, factor), иконом (jemadar, major domo, manciple, steward). (various references) | |
Chinese | 法警 (marshal). (various references) | |
Czech | biřic (catchpoll), správce (administrator, curator, keeper, manager, rector, superintendent, warden), soudní vykonavatel, šafář. (various references) | |
Danish | justitssekretær, foged. (various references) | |
Dutch | gerechtsdeurwaarder, deurwaarder. (various references) | |
Finnish | vouti (overseer), tilanhoitaja (holder, keeper, lessee, manager of an estate, steward, tenant farmer), pehtori (steward), oikeudenpalvelija (officer of the court), kruununvouti. (various references) | |
French | huissier. (various references) | |
German | gerichtsvollzieher (bailiffs, marshalUS). (various references) | |
Greek | κλητήρας, δικαστικόσ κλητήρασ, δικαστικόσ κλητήρ (process server), δικαστικός επιμελητής (probation assistant, probation officer). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ "ל "אחוז", פקי" "וצא" לפועל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | végrehajtó (dispenser, executive, executor), törvényszolga (bum, bumbailiff, outrider), tiszttartó, bírósági kézbesítő (broker, sheriff's officer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | juru sita. (various references) | |
Italian | ufficiale giudiziario. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 執"吏 , 執行吏 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しったつり, しっ"うり. (various references) | |
Korean | 집달관 (Catchpoll). (various references) | |
Manx | meoir (agent of estate, curator, custodian, ganger, keeper, manager, mayor, prefect, steward, supervisor, taskmaster), baylee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailiffbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bailio, alguazil, meirinho, oficial de diligências (usher), meirinho (catchpoll, tipstaff). (various references) | |
Romanian | vechil (antiquity), uşier (door keeper, page, porter, usher), primar (elementary, initial, mayor, once removed, primal, primary, primeval, pristine, provost), portãrel (receiver), intendent (caretaker, intended, manciple, quartermaster, steward), şerif (Marshal, shereef, sherif, sheriff), administrator (administrator, director, economist, governor, housekeeper, janitor, land agent, manager, master, receiver, reeve, steward, suitor, superintendent, trustee, warden). (various references) | |
Russian | судебный пристав (bum-bailiff, catchpoll, usher), судебный исполнитель (catchpoll, executor, officer of the court). (various references) | |
Scottish | b illidh (a magistrate, magistrate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sudski izvršitelj. (various references) | |
Spanish | alguacil (alguazil, beadle, constable, Marshal, sheriff). (various references) | |
Swedish | fogde (Marshal, portreeve, reeve, sheriff). (various references) | |
Thai | เจ้าพนักงานที่ยึ"ทรัพย์สิน (ของลูกหนี้) (ทางกฎหมาย). (various references) | |
Turkish | mübaşir (beadle, tipstaff, usher), kralın bölgedeki temsilcisi, kâhya (Butler, Chamberlain, do all, estate agent, factor, factotum, major domo, steward, utility man), icra memuru (receiver). (various references) | |
Ukranian | судовий виконавець (apparitor, catchpoll, executor, fiscal), судовий пристав (bum, catchpoll), управитель ма"тку, заступник шерифа. (various references) | |
Welsh | beili, rhingyll (beadle, sargeant), goruchwyliwr (agent, overseer, steward, supervisor), ceisbwl (catchpole). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bajulus, praepositus, procurator. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bailiff": bailiffs, bailiffship, bailiffships. (additional references) | |
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"Bailiff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bailif, bailife, baillifs, bailoff, Baliff, balliff, bayliffe, Carileff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bailiff" (pronounced bā"luf) |
| 3 | -l u f | Aleph, caliph. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-i-i-l" | |
-2 letters: alibi, biali. | |
-3 letters: alif, baff, bail, biff, fail, fila, flab, ilia. | |
-4 letters: aff, ail, alb, bal, fib, fil, iff, lab, lib. | |
-5 letters: ab, ai, al, ba, bi, fa, if, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-f-i-i-l" | |
+1 letter: bailiffs. | |
+3 letters: affability. | |
+4 letters: bailiffship, falsifiable. | |
+5 letters: affabilities, bailiffships, ineffability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 69 6C 69 66 66 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .. .-.. .. ..-. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a i l i f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0069 006C 0069 0066 0066 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677578757272 |
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