tipstaff

How To Use tipstaff In A Sentence

• 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.
• The whole judicial hierarchy, from the highest presidents in the parlements to the humble tipstaff in the obscurest rural jurisdiction, bought their positions.
• So you couldn't just have a tipstaff or a sheriff or a jury officer say to the potential jurors, ‘Look, you guys surf the net, or not?’
• At the lowest level were thousands of petty jurisdictions, many private, but all fully staffed by a complement of judges, clerks, procurators, ushers, and tipstaffs.
• The American cases have examined these sorts of issues and we have provided your Honours' tipstaffs with some material which we will come to shortly.
• Let us assume, for example, that an associate has shares in a company that is a litigant and that the tipstaff's mother has invested in it.
• All the notabilities of Bideford came, of course, to see the baptism of the first “Red man” whose foot had ever trodden British soil, and the mayor and corporation-men appeared in full robes, with maces and tipstaffs, to do honor to that first-fruits of the Gospel in the West. Westward Ho!
• And his beadle, your lordship," added the host, and the under-strapper inside the greatcoat saluted the Colonel with a flourish of his tipstaff. The Yeoman Adventurer
• He had hardly finished speaking when a tipstaff dressed in the city livery and carrying a silver-topped staff entered the room. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
• At the lowest level were thousands of petty jurisdictions, many private, but all fully staffed by a complement of judges, clerks, procurators, ushers, and tipstaffs.