Sheriff's officer — landlord's agent

Usage examples of bailiff.

A few hours later the Baron sent his bailiff, who was far more important but had known Granny Aching for longer.

Bailiff rolled up a black-ribboned scroll as Micum and Alec approached.

The bailiff motioned for me to step down, off the witness chair, and I tried desperately to walk upright back to the bench where Baggy was still hunkering down, like a stray dog in a hailstorm.

I not cleared off I should have been run down myself, with a pack of bandog bailiffs at my heels.

The next day was Sunday, the only day on which Madame Cornelis could go abroad without fear of the bailiff.

I took Sara aside, and on hearing that all his trouble was on account of a debt of a hundred and fifty pounds, I asked the bailiff whether we could go away if the debt was paid.

Helikis, where the Masters were absentee landlords and the farms were operated in their name by bailiffs who were themselves of Folkish blood.

The bailiff of the manor provides furmety and mustard, and delivers to each shepherd a slice of cheese and a penny roll.

The seals were already affixed on all the doors, and I was not even allowed to go to my room, for a keeper had been left there by the bailiff.

Magistrates, councillors, jurisconsults, judges, barristers, officers for the crown, bailiffs, attorneys, clerks of the court, procurators, solicitors, and agents of various kinds, represent or misrepresent Justice.

I am bailiff of Southampton, that any waster, riever, draw-latch or murtherer came scathless away from me and my posse.

Mad with rage, I ran for a Jew, to whom I wanted to sell what remained of the furniture, but when I returned to my house I found a bailiff waiting at the door, and he handed me a summons.

The bailiff gave Grandier a statement of the conclusions at which he had arrived, and told him that the exorcisms had been performed that day by Barre, armed with the authority of the Bishop of Poitiers himself.

The bailiff, seeing that fresh plots against Grandier were being formed, sent for him and warned him that Barre had come over from Chinon the day before, and had resumed his exorcisms at the convent, adding that it was currently reported in the town that the mother superior and Sister Claire were again tormented by devils.

At the same time, knowing how impartial the bailiff was, he begged him to accompany the doctors and officials to the convent, and to be present at the exorcisms, and should any sign of real possession manifest itself, to sequester the afflicted nuns at once, and cause them to be examined by other persons than Mignon and Barre, whom he had such good cause to distrust.