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.