Word Meanings - BAILIFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc. Note: In American law the term bailiff is seldom used except sometimes to signify a sheriff's officer or constable, or a party liable to account to another for the

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A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc. Note: In American law the term bailiff is seldom used except sometimes to signify a sheriff's officer or constable, or a party liable to account to another for the rent and profits of real estate. Burrill. 3. An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. (more info) 1. 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 Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

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• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• SHERIFF
  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. Note: In England, sheriffs are appointed by the king. In the United
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• HUFFINESS
  The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• PUFFINESS
  The quality or state of being puffy.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• WATER BAILIFF
  An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.