(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.
Officer
Definition:
(n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
(n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.
(v. t.) To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
(v. t.) To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(13) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.