Definition of "bailiff" []

• A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial. (noun)
• An official who assists a British sheriff and who has the power to execute writs, processes, and arrests. (noun)
• Chiefly British An overseer of an estate; a steward. (noun)

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• "However, the bailiff is also justified in shooting the father."
• "The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c."
• "Most likely the bailiff is now convinced that the defendant did in fact kill the girl, and that the father is correcting a grave miscarriage of justice, so he will only arrest the father after the fact and not try to stop him."