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A judicial writ or precept directed to the sheriff, requiring him to cause a certain number of qualified persons to appear in court at a specified time, to serve as jurors in said court.
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a.
An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
n. pl.
Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.
n.
Alt. of Sheriffwick
n.
A sheriff.
a.
That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
n.
The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.
n.
A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
n.
A sheriff's deputy.
n.
Alt. of Sheriffwick
n.
Alt. of Sheriffwick
n.
A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.
v. t.
To depose from the office of sheriff.
a.
Of or pertaining to a sheriff.
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Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.
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Alt. of Sheriffwick
n.
The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
n.
The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
n.
The sheriff's turn, or court.
v. t.
To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
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