Sentences with bailiff
bail·iff
B b - The Bailiff of Jersey is the President of the States and acts as Speaker of the Assembly in the Westminster tradition. He is responsible for the orderly conduct of the States Assembly and its business. As Presiding Officer he has the right of speech – which is mainly exercised for ensuring the orderly conduct of the proceedings – but he cannot vote.
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- When the manager and a bailiff checked the person out they found 14 fish hidden in the boat.
- There is a video of the leasehold premises taken by a bailiff around the time the Old Lease was terminated.
- If they fail to do so, a bailiff will be instructed to execute a warrant to evict them.
- The bailiff was attempting to levy distress on behalf of the authority.
- Mr Scarth, who served on Russian convoys in the Arctic during the Second World War, was convicted of wounding a bailiff as he was evicted from a house in Leeds in 1999.
- I find that the applicant, far from participating or conspiring in what Mr. Schaer regards as an unlawful seizure, simply accepted the sailboat from the bailiff for storage.
- Gloucester ordered the bailiff to open the gates and behind the door was the most unlikely of persons.
- A bailiff leads K through a labyrinthine police precinct populated with people in similar situations.
- In the meantime, there is a room in the bailiff 's office where you are required to wait pending his arrival.
- First, the lord and bailiff found it in their interest to receive from him willing rather than unwilling work and to give him no motive to run away.
- The point I was going to make is that when a bailiff goes around to serve a warrant for arrest on a fines defaulter, the bailiff finds all too often that the person is no longer at the address that was given.
- Young people usually serve as jurors and may also fill the roles of prosecuting attorney, defense attorney, judge, bailiff, or other officers of the court.
- When an attempt was made to enforce the warrant on 2 March Mr Rahman paid the bailiff £750, the warrant was withdrawn and enforcement was not proceeded with.
- Another criminal, this one appearing in court on drug possession charges, was arrested by a bailiff after it was discovered he'd smuggled illegal drugs into his own hearing.
- As for resisting eviction, League members knew that if only they could stop the process server or bailiff from actually serving the ejectment writ or civil bill on the occupier, then no eviction could take place.
- Croft presented himself at his bailiff 's offices in Faversham by mid-morning and spent until late afternoon going over the books.
- Applying this to the case before it the Court of Appeal held that the arrest of the bailiff had been unlawful.
- It may be better to contact the bailiff 's head office and agree regular monthly payments with them, which you can realistically afford.
- The hundred bailiff served the sheriff's writs and the constable maintained law and order.
- ‘Please all rise for the honorable Judge Quincy Miller,’ called out the bailiff, and the people obeyed.
- What would we say, for example, if a juror brought habeas corpus against the bailiff?