Under Sheriff
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
A person appointed by the sheriff of a county to perform all his ordinary duties in his behalf. Sometimes confounded with a deputy sheriff, but the latter term is properly applicable to those whom the sheiriff appoints to execute process in his behalf, and who have no other powers than such as appertain to that particular duty.
1 Bl. Comm. 345, note.
In the old books, "undortakei'" means a promisor. 1 Salk. 27. "Undertaking" is frequently used in the special sense of a promise given in the course of legal proceedings by a party or his counsel, generally as a condition to obtaining some concession from the court or the opposite party.