What is "bailiffs"

Usage examples of "bailiffs".

One day a squad of the bailiffs hoodlums would come in with their cudgels and swords and beat him, put chains on him and take him away.

The bailiffs most important duty was to collect the emperor's taxes, and the taxes continually grew.

If he could somehow get him inside the bailiffs fortress, perhaps into the same room with him .

They should have stayed outside the skirt of garden walls, circling till they came to the much higher, stronger wall of the bailiffs compound.

The bailiffs manor was a tee-shaped building, itself a minor fortress.

Where he found himself looking into candle flame, and the eyes of the bailiffs wife, peering at him through the mosquito curtain!

The bailiffs eyes bulged open, and for just a mo­ment his body strained upward before collapsing back.

The investigator has left, with part of the troop, but there still are soldiers at the bailiffs stronghold.

Neither we nor our bailiffs will seize any land or rent for any debt, as long as the chattels of the debtor are sufficient to repay the debt.

No sheriff, constable, coroners, or others of our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our Crown.

Neither we nor our bailiffs shall take, for our castles or for any other work of ours, wood which is not ours, against the will of the owner of that wood.

We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well.

There was not an hour that passed when Tom did not look tothe shore and worry about the threat of the bailiffs that hung overhim.

Even the entry operators, and the officers, bailiffs, and investigators swarming in and out of the main entrance wore black.

He began with a review of the rules governing spectators, then guests, then witnesses, any infractions of which, he said slowly, would be met with immediate eviction by the bailiffs, ‘--to the prejudice of that issue to which the unruly individual or individuals appeared to be speaking, if that can be determined.