"Under-Sheriff" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

Under-Sheriff LAW AND LEGAL
Definition:

An oflicer who acts directly under the sheriff, and performs all the duties of the sheriff’s office, a few only excepted where the personal presence of the high-sheriff is necessary. The sheriff is civilly responsible for the acts or omissions of his under-sheriff. Mozley & whltley

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The name of a writ formerly issuing from the English chan-cery, commanding the sheriff to make ln-quiry “to what damage” …

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One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a …

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Intercommuning LAW AND LEGAL

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In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband's lands which belong to …

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The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term ls not …

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The statute 3 Edw. I.,, A. D. 1275. This statute which deserves the name of a code rather than an …

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