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| bailiff | |
| 1. sost. persona con funzioni giudiziarie | |
| 2. sost. (storia) balivo | |
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| bailiff | |
| 1. subst. (law enforcement) An officer of the court, particularly: |  |
| 2. subst. (historical, Norman term) A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Con | |
| 3. subst. (UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the L | |
| 4. subst. (UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection. | |
| 5. subst. (US, colloquial) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order. | |
| 6. subst. A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security. | |
| 7. subst. A public administrator, particularly: | |
| 8. subst. (obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown. | |
| 9. subst. (historical) The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England. | |
| 10. subst. The title of the mayor of certain English towns. | |
| 11. subst. The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England. | |
| 12. subst. The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands. | |
| 13. subst. The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man. | |
| 14. subst. (obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns. | |
| 15. subst. (historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages. | |
| 16. subst. (historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' | |
| 17. subst. (historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states. | |
| 18. subst. A private administrator, particularly (anchor, Steward) | |
| 19. subst. (historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc. | |
| 20. subst. (historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above). | |
| 21. subst. (historical, mining) The foreman or overman of a mine. | |
| 22. subst. (slang) Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status. | |
