Bailiff

A person to whom some authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction is delivered, committed, or intrusted. Spelman. A sheriff's officer or deputy. 1 Bl. Comm. 344. A magistrate, who formerly administered justice in the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English sheriffs as mentioned by Bracton. There are still bailiffs of particular towns in England; as, the bailiff of Dover Castle, etc; otherwise, bailiffs are now only officers or stewards, etc.; as bailiffs of liberties, appointed by every lord within his liberty, to serve writs, etc.; bailiffs errant or itinerant, appointed to go about the conntry for the same purpose; sheriff's bailiffs, sheriff's of Scers to exetjute Writs; these are also called "bound bailiffs," because they are usually bound in a bond to the sheriff for the due execution of their of Sce; baillffG, of court baron, to smnmon the court, etc; bailiffs of husbandry, appointed by private towns for searching ships, gathering tolls, etc. Bac. Abr. In Account Render. A person who has by delivery the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the own-, er or bailor, and is liable to render an account thereof. Co. Litt. 271; 2 Leon. 246; Story, Eq. Jur. § 446.

A person to whom some authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction is delivered, committed, or intrusted. Spelman, Gloss. A sheriff's officer or deputy. 1 Bla. Com. 344. A court attendant, sometimes called a tipstaff. A magistrate, who formerly administered justice in the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English sheriffs as mentioned by Bracton. There are still bailiffs of particular towns in England; as, the bailiff of Dover Castle, etc.; otherwise, bailiffs are now only officers or stewards, etc.; as, bailiffs of liberties, appointed by every lord within his liberty, to serve writs, etc.; bailiffs errant or itinerant, appointed to go about the country for the same purpose; sheriff's bailiffs, sheriff's officers to execute writs; these are also called bound bailiffs, because they are usually bound in a bond to the sheriff for the due execution of their office; bailiffs of court-baron, to summon the court, etc.; bailiffs of husbandry, appointed by private persons to collect their rents and manage their estates; water bailiffs, officers in port towns for searching ships, gathering tolls, etc. Bacon, Abr. A person acting in a ministerial capacity who has by delivery the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the owner or bailor, and is liable to render an account thereof. Co. Litt. 271; Story, Eq. Jur. § 446; Barnum v. Landon, 25 Conn. 149. The word is derived from the old French bailler, to deliver, and originally implied the delivery of real estate, as of land, woods, a house, a part of the fish in a pond; Ow. 20; 2 Leon. 194; 37 Edw.

In a general sense, a person to whom some authority, care, guardianship or jurisdiction is delivered, committed or intrusted; one who is deputed or appointed to take charge of another's affairs; an overseer or superintendent; a keeper, protector or guardian; a steward. Spelman. A sheriff's officer or deputy. 1 Bl. Comm. 344. A magistrate, who formerly administered Justice in the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English sheriffs as mentioned by Bracton. In the action of account render. A person who has by delivery the custody and administration of lands or goods for the benefit of the owner or bailor, and ls liable to render an account thereof. Co. Litt. 271; Story, Eq. Jur. § 446; West v. Weyer, 46 Ohio St. 66, 18 N. E. 537, 15 Am. St. Rep. 552. A bailiff is defined to be "a servant that has the administration and charge of lands, goods, and chattels, to make the best benefit for the owner, against whom an action of account lies, for the profits which he has raised or made, or might by his industry or care have raised or made." Barnum v. London, 25 Conn. 149. -Bailiff-errant. A bailiff's deputy.

— Bailiffs of franchises. In English law. Officers who perform the duties of sheriffs within liberties or privileged jurisdictions, in which formerly the king's writ could not be executed by the sheriff. Spelman
—Bailiff ed at the request of a party to a suit, for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.

A person to whom authority, care, guardianship or jurisdiction is intrusted; an overseer or superintendent; a keeper; a sheriff's officer; a land steward; the chief magistrate of a town.

In old English law. Bailiffs errant: bailiffs, anciently so called because they went about in the execution of their offica Bailiffs of franchises: officers who performed the duties of sheriffs within privileged jurisdictions within which formerly the sheriff could not act. Bailiffs of hundreds: officers appointed by sheriffs to act in hundreds, to collect fines, to summon juries, to attend the judges, to execute writs, etc. Bailiff's of manors: stewards or agents, appointed by the lord (generally by an authority under seal), to superintend the manor, collect fines and quit rentg, and do other acts for the lord's interest Anciently, a distinct officer from the steward, and immediately subordinate to him.

A keeper; a sheriff's officer; a land steward.