Where the bailiffs gave the black-fishers an opportunity of escaping without a fight it was nearly always taken; the booty being left behind.
He was said to have gone to the houses of the bailiffs and offered to sell them the fish stolen from the streams over which they kept guard.
Encounters with thebailiffs were not infrequent, though they seldom took place at the water's edge.
From time immemorial, direct taxes in France have been collected only by bailiffs and seizures; which is not surprising, as they take away a full half of the net income.
The bailiffs and other officers of the abbey did not dare to show their faces in the streets.
The bailiffsand soldiers were still there, occupied with sealing the doors and closets.
The bailiffs and soldiers, who had been placed there, respectfully stood aside.
Without are soldiers and bailiffs and the officers of the Russian embassy.
Should he, however, again invest his bailiffs or officers with lands and peasants, he will still have the most pressing political interest to see to it that his subjects are not delivered over to them without restraint.
Swanson and Mrs. Bainton were convicted of this felony at the King's Bench Bar; but the bailiffs who arrested her on a sham action were acquitted, with which the court was not well pleased.
It was inflicted pursuant to sentence in open court, but in some parts the bailiffs had the power within their own jurisdictions, and the right of gallows, tumbrel, and pillory was often claimed by lords of the manor.
Three bailiffs and a woman, Swanson's pretended sister, who assisted, are also committed, they having forced her to marry him.
Bailiffs and the lesser officers of justice were especially obnoxious to these high-tempered bloods.
But very few Marranos succeeded in escaping from the bailiffsof the Inquisition.
Finally there should be elected in every parish in the country bailiffs and sub-bailiffs.
We now have a view of the change in the law courts in Montreal: a yearly session of the king’s court and of the court of common pleas, quarter sessions held by the justices of the peace, and in the parishes, the bailiffs or constables.
Two militia sergeants had been appointed to act as bailiffs and criers of the court, and a tariff of fees was asked for to provide for their pay.
The case of this fellow may prove a wholesome lesson to some of the constables and bailiffs of the present day.
The bailiffs were pelted with rocks when they came to distrain property.
Bailiffs did not dare venture into these areas because the inhabitants hid and defended each other unless the offense was a major one.
We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well.
Neither we nor our bailiffs shall take, for our castles or for any other work of ours, wood which is not ours, against the will of the owner of that wood.
After the sentence was read, the three Christians were led back to prison; John Wirth walking first, the two vice-bailiffs next, and a priest behind them.
The two bailiffs left twenty-two children, and forty-five grandchildren.
The certificate referred to was signed by the master of the gild, twobailiffs of the city, an alderman, a citizen, and two stewards of the gild.
Thorold Rogers states that the accounts of bailiffs afford proof that they were not illiterate, and he also evidences that artisans were able to write out an account.
When bailiffs can squeeze us, and tax-gatherers cheat us, without our daring to make a stir about it.
But bailiffs and tax-gatherers have their superiors.
And the bailiffs defend all of it, and Richard likewise defends all of it and that he never heard any such proclamation made by anyone.
Complaint of the said Merchants that although they have Letters or have made oath, nevertheless after the Oath made the bailiffs of the customs do unseal their Barrels, Fardels, and Bales for which they have taken their oath.
The scrupulous gentlemen were well content; but when an explanation ensued, the vexed bishop paid the money out of very shame, and Joe and the bailiffs spread the story.
This man has served me when all London was friendless, and he tells me that he has nowhere else to go,--that the bailiffs are after him.
The two bailiffs who dogged have seized their prey.
The son of the house and his two grown cousins are here, the butler and gardener still remain staunch, as well as the coachman and a couple of bailiffs living outside, all "Boycotted" also.
At a signal from Louchard thebailiffs vanished from the room, respectfully taking their hats off.
If once the bailiffs were at your heels, and you were turned out of the Hotel Grandlieu, where would you be?
For Liberty no champion bolder, He hated bailiffs at his shoulder.
A house to which debtors are taken before commitment to prison, where the bailiffs sponge upon them, or riot at their cost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bailiffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
