Acronym meanings of SHERIFF. Acronym & meanings of SHERIFF

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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Turn

A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.

Shrieve

A sheriff.

Scavage

A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts.

Right

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.

Vicontiel

Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a country.

Tourn

The sheriff's turn, or court.

Vicontiels

n. pl.

Things belonging to the sheriff; especially, farms (called also vicontiel rents) for which the sheriff used to pay rent to the king.

Shrievalty

The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.

Sheriffwick

The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.

Seize

v. t.

To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

Sheriffship

Alt. of Sheriffwick

Undersheriff

A sheriff's deputy.

Sheriff

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.

Sheriffry

Alt. of Sheriffwick

Sheriffdom

Alt. of Sheriffwick

Shrieval

Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

Sheriffalty

Alt. of Sheriffwick

Viscount

An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.

Unsheriff

v. t.

To depose from the office of sheriff.

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