What's the difference between bailiff and sheriff?

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.

Sheriff


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
  • (2) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
  • (3) Tim Casey, Arpaio's attorney, said the position of the Sheriff's Office "is that it has never used race and will never use race in its law-enforcement decisions."
  • (4) Sheriff Parnell McNamara of McLennan County will help lead the criminal investigation.
  • (5) The local sheriff wanted to bury the body as soon as possible in Mississippi.
  • (6) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
  • (7) The local sheriff, FBI and other law enforcement officials have so far held back from confronting the militia, who are heavily armed and have lookouts on a watchtower.
  • (8) They walked past multiple sheriff’s deputies on the way out to their trucks.
  • (9) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
  • (10) After finding him guilty of all 23 charges of assault and one of breach of the peace, Sheriff Kathrine Mackie said his claims of self-defence, provocation and a conspiracy by his ex-wives were "not credible".
  • (11) John Howard delighted in his role as George W Bush’s “deputy sheriff”, while Kevin Rudd’s Cheshire cat smile was never widest than when beaming at Barack Obama.
  • (12) There’s a new sheriff in town.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Blasts from the past.
  • (13) Dan Houston, the sheriff of Bernalillo County, admits he had never heard of White's character, or Cranston, the actor who won multiple Emmy awards for the role, when he was first approached to provide a funeral escort.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palm Beach county sheriff officers with in riot gear keep protesters against Donald Trump away from the entrance to the president’s Mar-a-Lago resor.
  • (15) All I could think of were the families once living in these homes and the day the banks and sheriff put them on the street.
  • (16) The Texas car chase started when a sheriff's deputy in Montague County tried to pull over the Cadillac around 11 a.m. local time Thursday, authorities there said.
  • (17) Photograph: Multnomah County sheriff's office Geoffrey Stanek was one of the last of the 25 to be arrested.
  • (18) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
  • (19) Sheriff Bannerman, who calls for Johnny's help, reappears in Cujo and in Different Seasons' The Body .
  • (20) The Morton County sheriff’s office said it took action to “enforce the law and evict” the “illegal camp” after people refused to leave.