Again, he robbed a bailiff who had just distrained a poor farmer for rent.
The proceeds of the sale, which the bailiff thus lost, Nevison restored to the farmer.
Water-bailiff of the City, dispute with the Crown touching office of, i, 406.
Gate, Sir John, the king's bailiff in Southwark, i, 442.
As long as we pay our taxes and land rent, the bailiff can't touch a hair of our head.
The bailiff is an honest man; when we slip a rix-dollar into his fist, he'll swear to his lordship that we can't pay our rent.
Enter the Bailiff in a coat with silver buttons and a sword-belt over his shoulder.
The deacon is, I know, a thoroughly educated man; that I have heard both the district bailiff and the tax-collector say.
I wish he would come home before the bailiff goes, for he wants very much to talk with him, and is eager to ask him about several things which--But there, I see him coming.
It is all one to me, too, what the bailiff or the others here in the village think on the subject; for I know that the earth is round.
The bailiffagrees with me, and says, "My dear woman, pay no attention to the pastor.
When a bailiff and a lieutenant put their heads together, such things are not impossible.
If you don't pay up, you won't get a drop; we have sworn off trusting any one, even the bailiff himself.
I meant to say, that I know your games and your goings-on so well, I could be a bailiff myself if I had to.
She beats me, the bailiff drives me to work as if I were an animal, and the deacon makes a cuckold of me.
I have sent word to the bailiff and the deacon, so that my son can have some one to dispute with when he comes back.
The offices had formerly been adapted for a large establishment; there had been extensive farm buildings, and at least six substantial houses for the bailiff and other farm servants.
The first Austrian bailiff was Hermann Gessler, who built a strong fortress at Küssnacht, in Uri.
He observed great secrecy in carrying out his designs, and it was not until a tax-gatherer or bailiff was permanently established in the country, supported by Austrian soldiers, that the people awakened to their danger.
Having thus escaped the clutches of the governor, he made for the main road between Art and Küssnacht, and there hid himself until such a time as the bailiff should pass that way.
In this emergency the Austrian bailiff was reminded by one of his attendants that the prisoner Tell was no less skillful in the management of a boat than in the exercise of the bow.
Slavery continued to thrive on the soil of Northumberland long after the time of Edward the First; for in 1470, Sir Roger Widdrington manumitted his native, William Atkinson, for the purpose of making him his bailiff of Woodhorn.
He had the patronage of all the churches save one; no bailiff could come into his territories under any pretence whatever; and no man was to presume in any way to molest or disturb him on pain of forfeiting ten pounds to the king.
From that time a bailiff and two constables were appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor until a local board was formed in 1854.
His duty was to arrange the distribution of the services due from the tenants, and, as their representative, to assist the bailiff in the management of the manor.
First came the bailiff or beadle, the representative of the lord in the manor; his duty was to collect the rents and services, to gather in the lord's crops and account for the receipts and expenditure of the manor.
Inquests of death are held by a high-bailiff and jury.
When no tenants for vacant land could be secured who would perform the customary services due from it, the bailiff was forced to commute them.
The fact which does interest us is that with the cessation of bailiff farming the last attempt at keeping the land distributed in fairly equal shares among a large number of tenants was abandoned.
Before leaving Nancy he discussed the situation at length with the Duchess's latest friend, Baron de Polweiler, the Bailiff of Hagenau, a brave and loyal servant of Charles V.
Nothing that she could say altered his opinion in this respect, and she thought it wiser to send the Bailiff to Nancy, where he was able to watch over her interests and send reports to the Queen of Hungary.
Soon after his return he married a lady of the Lannoy family, and was appointed Bailiff of Alost.
Hitherto your bailiff has put a man to do it, and I have consented; but if you do not have the bell cast, then you must come yourself and make hay and cut wood.
Yet though his pow'r be fled, Nor Bailiff wait his nod nor Gaoler; Bright honour still adorns the head Of my Papa, Sir Robert Tayler!
Being satisfied with this prospect, he went to the High Bailiff for his license to leave the island.
Going indoors he had said, "Plague on the water-bailiff and commissioners and kays and councils.
Anyway there was a warrant for his arrest, for the High Bailiffhad drawn it.
Go to the High Bailiff," said the captain of the packet; and to the High Bailiff Stephen Orry went.
He also sent letters to the Bailiff and the ten jurats of the island; and to these last he further sent three of his pamphlets.
It appears that in 1871 a certain Mr John George Stuart was the High Bailiff of the town.
One day at lunch my bailiff informed me that the Pestrovo peasants had begun to pull the thatch off the roofs to feed their cattle.
All the roofs were intact, not one of them had been pulled to pieces; so my bailiff had told a lie.
While I was drinking my coffee the bailiff gave me a long report on various matters.
When the shadows merged into one thick mass of shade, the bailiff Fyodor would come in from shooting or from the field.
Last year a man who had abused his power was cashiered, on the representation of the people to the bailiff of the district.
Thus, in the manor of Frodsham, the bailiff returns the receipt of only twenty shillings rent for the lands of the manor farm, "received for 66 animals feeding on them.
Professor Thorold Rogers has pointed out that "very speedily after the plague, this system of farming by bailiff was discontinued, and that of farming on lease adopted.
Further, at the same sittings, the bailiff notes that he has in hand the lands and tenements of about thirty tenants, who had apparently left no heir to succeed to their holdings.
We find the privilege of having their insignia borne in the cathedral on record as early as 1448 in indentures between Bishop Lowe on the one part, and the bailiff and townspeople of Rochester on the other.
At the same time he fined the sheriff for contempt of court $200, and appointed a temporary bailiff to act, and directed him to clear the court-room of the disturbers.
The newbailiff summoned all the bystanders, who instantly responded, and the court-room was immediately cleared.
He knows everybody by appearance, it seems, and nobody knows him; and, by Jove, he describes more like a bailiff than a Guardsman.
I would say, in the first instance, 'Let no Sheriff or Bailiff of the King nor any other person take horses or carts of any free man for doing carriage except with his own consent.
The soldiers had leaped from their horses as soon as thebailiff went down, and both together they seized Wilfrid and overthrew and bound him fast.
Mayhap the bailiff will not ride abroad so opportunely.
The clerkly youth who seemed in authority in the absence of the bailiff was much in doubt as to the wisdom of permitting any such entry, and, indeed, at first refused.
The bailiff and the broker's man were as well known as the butcher and the baker to the noisy children who played upon the waste ground in front of the parlor windows.
I'll give you the money to send this bailiff away," my lady said, after a pause.
For, one day, a band of valiant men of Thurgau, incited by the bailiff from Uri, had tried to surprise the city, in order to punish her for her bravadoes against the Swiss.
To Dighton was granted the office of bailiff of Ayton in Staffordshire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bailiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
