What's the difference between bailie and bailiff?

Bailie


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rigid copper-constantan and flexible Baily thermocouples were used to monitor temperature responses.
  • (2) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
  • (3) In contrast, behavior modifiers and those using physical treatments such as psychosurgery claim rates of improvement and success which sometimes exceed 90 percent (Baily et al., 1973; Hunter-Brown, 1972; Paul, 1965; Rachman, 1971).
  • (4) Baily Logue, Cliven’s 24-year-old daugher, told the Guardian: “Anytime anyone speaks out against the federal government, we are taken down, put into jail and detained … But we’re not backing down, and this is not going to make us any weaker at all.
  • (5) Z. fermentati was found highly resistant to the proteolytic enzymes tested, whereas Z. baili was only trypsin-resistant.
  • (6) A studio spokeswoman said Wednesday that Paramount would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart as George Baily, a desperate family man who imagines what his town would be like if he'd never been born.
  • (7) In this report we demonstrate how the recently developed biotinylated affinity label biotinyl-Phe-Ala-diazomethane (Bio-Phe-Ala-CHN2) [Cullen, McGinty, Walker, Nelson, Halliday, Bailie & Kay (1990) Biochem.
  • (8) Those relatively few judgments that the IPT does publish will in future be available on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (Baili) website.

Bailiff


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
  • (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
  • (n.) An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that 11,100 properties were repossessed by bailiffs between July and September this year , the highest quarterly figure since records began in 2000.
  • (2) Data obtained by the Guardian last year showed that government cuts to council tax benefits had left 670,000 facing bailiffs in the first six months of 2013.
  • (3) In around 1300, the peasants of Bocking in Essex (later a centre of the 1381 peasants’ revolt) appealed to Magna Carta in a struggle against their lord’s bailiff.
  • (4) The company got an emergency injunction from the high court and without warning bailiffs evicted us early on Christmas Eve.
  • (5) After initially insisting that the first anyone in the government knew about the £1.7bn was when Jean-Claude Juncker sent in the bailiffs on Friday, he later admitted that George Osborne might just have learned about it three days earlier and forgotten to tell him.
  • (6) Applied nationwide, it would cut bailiff interventions by around 150,000 and save the government about £30m.
  • (7) Police and enforcement officers then moved to evict squatters from another building in the complex, also owned by a subsidiary of the Swiss banking group, during which observers claim a photographer was punched in the face by a bailiff who then allegedly drove his car towards at least one person and carried another on his bonnet for 50 yards.
  • (8) In a survey of 500 people who had been pursued by bailiffs over council tax debts, 38% said they were charged fees for visits that were never made.
  • (9) Unlike some rival organisations, Wonga doesn't use bailiffs to force people to pay money, and has developed a "hardship team" to deal with clients who are unable to pay, but some clients have had difficulties persuading Wonga to stop taking payments out of their account.
  • (10) Police are ready to give the fullest support to the bailiffs to execute the court order tomorrow,” the statement said.
  • (11) Nobody wants anyone to go to prison for non-payment of anything, but you have to consider what the other options are – civil remedies, bailiffs, are equally not a very pleasant way to go down,” she said.
  • (12) Once it became apparent that eviction – involving police and bailiffs – was on the cards, he knew he could no longer continue.
  • (13) Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "Bailiff firms must treat people fairly and make sure their actions aren't driving people deeper into unmanageable debt.
  • (14) No locksmith can defeat it, no bailiff kick it in; patrolling policemen pass it, because it is visible only to the eye of faith.
  • (15) One of the black-clad court bailiffs with automatic weapons who sit beside the dock has closed his eyes.
  • (16) When the bailiffs arrived, they gave the protesters a notice in the name of Finchley and Golders Green Conservative association asking them to vacate the premises under common law, a rarely used legal route.
  • (17) Researchers say that more than 500,000 of the families at risk from the bailiffs have a taxable income of less than £20,000.
  • (18) Poor Jeremy Hunt , condemned by the cycle of contract negotiations to find himself pitched against them, like a bailiff come to evict the sisters of mercy.
  • (19) In five days' time, police and bailiffs will evict her and several dozen householders , some of whom have squatted the property for more than 30 years.
  • (20) Sir Geoffrey Rowland, the current bailiff of Guernsey, told the researchers: "It is an immensely important archive, demonstrating their bravery and courage.

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