Bailiff
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A bailiff is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. There are different kinds, and their offices and scope of duties vary.
Bailiff's notice on boarded-up premises, London, 2015
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Reeve (England)
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In Anglo-Saxon England, a reeve was an administrative official serving the king or a lesser lord in a variety of roles. After the Norman Conquest, it was an office held by a man of lower rank, appoint
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…who also administers oaths to people who participate in court proceedings. Bailiff was the term used by the Normans for what the Saxons had called a reeve: the officer responsible for executing the decisions of a court. The duty of the bailiff would thus include serving summonses and orders, and executing…
Oswald the Reeve in "The Reeve's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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