English-Thai Dictionary
bailiff
N เจ้าพนักงาน ที่ ยึดทรัพย์ สิน (ของ ลูกหนี้ (ทางกฎหมาย dispossessor sheriff jao-pha-nak-ngan-ti-yued-sab-sin
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
BAILIFF
Bail "iff, n. Etym: [OF. baillif, F. bailli, custodiabajulus porter. See Bail to deliver. ]
1. Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.
2. (Eng. Law )
Defn: A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
Note: In American law the term bailiff is seldom used except sometimes to signify a sheriff's officer or constable, or a party liable to account to another for the rent and profits of real estate. Burrill.
3. An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng. ]
BAILIFFWICK
BAILIFFWICK Bail "iff *wick, n.
Defn: See Bailiwick. [Obs. ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
bailiff
bail iff |ˈbālif ˈbeɪlɪf | ▶noun a person who performs certain actions under legal authority, in particular: • an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc. • chiefly Brit. a sheriff's officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests. • Brit. the agent or steward of a landlord. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French baillif, inflected form of bailli, based on Latin bajulus ‘carrier, manager. ’
Oxford Dictionary
bailiff
bailiff |ˈbeɪlɪf | ▶noun 1 a sheriff's officer who executes writs and processes and carries out distraints and arrests. • the agent of a landlord. 2 N. Amer. an official in a court of law who keeps order, looks after prisoners, etc. 3 Brit. historical the sovereign's representative in a district, especially the chief officer of a hundred. • the first civil officer in the Channel Islands. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French baillif, inflected form of bailli (see bailie ), based on Latin bajulus ‘carrier, manager ’.
Duden Dictionary
Bailiff
Bai liff Substantiv, maskulin , der |ˈbeːlɪf |der Bailiff; Genitiv: des Bailiffs, Plural: die Bailiffs lateinisch-französisch -englisch englische Form von: Bailli
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
bailiff
bai liff /béɪlɪf /名詞 複 ～s C 1 ｟主に英 ｠執行吏 （り ） 〘sheriffの下役 〙.2 ｟米 ｠廷吏 （ていり ）(｟英 ｠usher ).3 ｟英 ｠土地 [農場 ]管理人 .4 〘英史 〙郡代, 代官 .
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