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US
/ˈbeɪɫəf, ˈbeɪɫɪf/
]
[ UK /bˈeɪlɪf/ ]
[ UK /bˈeɪlɪf/ ]
NOUN
- an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
How To Use bailiff In A Sentence
- The lawyers, policemen and bailiffs grinned, along with the clerk.
- Next morning, his lordship and friends, accompanied by the high and low bailiffs, walked to view the manufactory of Mr. Clay, japanner in ordinary to his Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; the sword manufactory of The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
- Swindon Council has called in the bailiffs to sort out motorists dodging parking fines.
- The mere fact, if it be a fact, that the constable reasonably thought that a breach of the peace was likely did not in my judgment justify the arrest of the bailiff.
- With this view, while the bailiff conducted him to bed in another apartment, he desired the catchpole to act the part of mediator between him and the Count, and furnished him with proper instructions for that purpose. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- Court bailiffs are doing a job like anybody else and are generally extremely helpful. Say Goodbye to Debt
- Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
- Deacon the bailiff with his two varlets went down to the Hall yesternight on the matter of the escuage, and came screaming back with this young hothead raging at their heels. Sir Nigel
- Before the video was over, the bailiff, a police officer in the courtroom, turned it off.
- ‘When they have a court order the bailiffs can gain repossession of the land and can ask the police for help if they need it,’ says John.