Tipstaff
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Aa of SoBr appointed by the marshal of the court of king's bench to attend upon the judges with a kind of rod or staff tipped with s Uver. In the United States, the courts sometimes appoint an officer who is Inriown by this name, whose duty it is to wait on the court and serve its process.