bailiffn.

Brit.

/ˈbeɪlɪf/, U.S.

/ˈbeɪlᵻf/

Forms: Middle English baillif, Middle English–1600s bailif, Middle English balyf, Middle English baillyve, 1500s bailliff, baliffe, balyfe, balyve, balive, baylyff, bailiefe, 1500s–1600s bailiffe, baylife, bayliffe, 1600s baliffe, bailive, bayllive, 1600s–1700s bayliff, 1500s– bailiff.

Etymology: Middle English baillif , < Old French baillif, object case of baillis (12th cent.) < late Latin bājulīvus , properly an adjective < bājulus , originally ‘carrier,’ afterwards ‘carrier on, manager, administrator.’ (See bail n.¹ and compare bājulāre under bail v.¹ Bājulīvus thus meant ‘(one) having the nature or character of a bājulus.’ In medieval Latin ballivus, baillivus, balivus, from the French and English words.)

1. One charged with public administrative authority in a certain district.

a. In England, formerly applied to the king's officers generally, including sheriffs, mayors, etc., nominated by him, but especially to the chief officer of a hundred; still the title of the chief magistrate of various towns, as the High-bailiff of Westminster, and of the keeper of some of the royal castles, as the Bailiff of Dover Castle.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > bailiff

bailie1297

bailiff1297

Moabite1699

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 473 That ple solde be ibroȝt Biuore the king and is bailifs.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6445 Ietro him gaf counsaile. vnder baillifes [Vesp. baillis, Gött. bayles, Trin. Cambr. bailies] ham to sette.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxi. 213 The quene sent in hast to the Baillifs of wynchestre.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 290 His father..was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 568 The bailiffs of hundreds and tythings and boroughs, with their people.

1835 Penny Cycl. III. 290/1 The sheriff is called the King's bailiff, and his county is his bailiwick.

1873 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 102 The gerefa, who becomes after the Conquest the bailiff of the hundred.

1873 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 561 In those towns in which there was no mayor, the presidency of the local courts remained with the bailiffs.

figurative.1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 69 in Church-hist. Brit. Down comes the Bailiffe of Bedford (so the Country-people commonly call the overflowing of the River Ouse) attended..with many servants..and breaks down all their paper-banks.

b. Used as the English form of the title of various foreign magistrates; e.g. the French bailli, and German Landvogt; also of the bailly or first civil officer in the Channel Islands, and formerly also of the Scottish bailie n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > specifically in foreign countries

sheriffa1225

bailiff1681

1681 Act (Scotl.), London Gaz. No. 1649/2 Sheriffs, Stewards, Bailiffs of Royalty and Regality.

1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 23 One of the Magistrates of Glasgow..made a Bailiff by the Archbishop.

1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of Jersey v. 129 Bailiff and Jurats of the said Isle for the time being.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xliii. 286 The great bailiff of the district, of which there are about twenty five in the Hanoverian dominions.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 160 Henry, while yet Bailiff of the Empire, during the captivity of Baldwin.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iii. 77 De Griyse formerly bailiff of Bruges.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxiii. 524 The Bailiff, or Judge, is the first civil officer in each island.

1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) I. ii. ii. 492 A royal envoy, the bailiff of Lyons.

2. An officer of justice under a sheriff, who executes writs and processes, distrains, and arrests; a warrant officer, pursuivant, or catchpoll.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff

beadlec1000

ridemanlOE

cacherela1325

outrider1332

bailiff1377

catchpolea1382

bailiec1386

officer?1387

sheriff's manc1400

attacher1440

messenger1482

tipped staffc1500

servitor1527

bailie-errant1528

processar1534

bum-bailiff1560

tipstaff1570

nut-hook1600

saffo1607

servera1612

bailiff-errant1612

bum-bailey1615

process servera1616

buckle-bosom1622

bumbee1653

exploiter1653

moar1656

bum1659

bummer1675

bumbail1696

bulldog1699

sheriff's officer1703

bum-trap1749

bound-bailiff1768

shelly-coata1774

body snatcher1778

lurcher1785

fool-finder1796

messenger1801

bugaboo1809

borough-bailiff1812

sheriff mair1812

speciality1815

grab1823

legalist1835

candy man1863

writter1882

sheriff1928

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 59 Shireues and here clerkes, Bedelles and Bailliues.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Evj Ther someners & ther scribes..With balyues and catchpolles.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xix. f. 67 Returned by the Shiriffe and warned by his bayliffe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 95 He hath bene since an Ape-bearer, then a Processe-seruer (a Bayliffe ).

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 330. ⁋3 I was arrested and conveyed..to a Bayliff's house.

1863 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (ed. 2) 326 A bailiff making an inventory of goods on which he has taken execution.

figurative.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 24 The conscience is but Gods Bayliff.

3. The agent of the lord of a manor, who collects rents, etc.; the steward of a landholder, who manages his or her estate; one who superintends the husbandry of a farm for its owner or tenant.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property

town-reeveeOE

reeveeOE

gravec1175

procuratorc1300

dispender1340

provost1340

bailiec1375

officerc1375

dispenserc1380

proctora1382

dispensator1382

farmerc1384

approverc1386

husbanda1387

stewardc1405

chamberlain1423

procurer1477

factor1520

bailiff1528

land-steward1535

improver1536

grieve1537

amtman1582

administrator1596

stead-man1609

dapifer1636

vogt1694

house jobber1709

commissioner1760

foreman1774

house agent1793

ground-officer1815

land-agent1846

wic-reeve1853

steadward1876

house farmer1882

house-knacker1884

land-sergeant1894

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. vii Whiche they shall delyuer vnto the Stewarde or baylyffe.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xx. sig. eviii Whan he..founde his possessions..distroyed..He sayd to his baylife, I wold surely punisshe the.

1617 Janua Linguarum 526 The baliffe gathereth-in harvest into the barne.

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 75 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) My Bayliff told me, 'Twas none of his Fault.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. ii. 156 Here's Father January taken a lease of March month, and put in Jack Frost for bailiff.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 72 I'm going over one of the farms..with the bailiff.

Compounds

C1.

bailiff-haunted adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > haunted by bailiffs

bailiff-haunted1812

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Cui Bono in Rejected Addr. ix The bailiff-haunted throng.

C2.

† bailiff-errant n. Obsolete (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff

beadlec1000

ridemanlOE

cacherela1325

outrider1332

bailiff1377

catchpolea1382

bailiec1386

officer?1387

sheriff's manc1400

attacher1440

messenger1482

tipped staffc1500

servitor1527

bailie-errant1528

processar1534

bum-bailiff1560

tipstaff1570

nut-hook1600

saffo1607

servera1612

bailiff-errant1612

bum-bailey1615

process servera1616

buckle-bosom1622

bumbee1653

exploiter1653

moar1656

bum1659

bummer1675

bumbail1696

bulldog1699

sheriff's officer1703

bum-trap1749

bound-bailiff1768

shelly-coata1774

body snatcher1778

lurcher1785

fool-finder1796

messenger1801

bugaboo1809

borough-bailiff1812

sheriff mair1812

speciality1815

grab1823

legalist1835

candy man1863

writter1882

sheriff1928

1612 J. Davies Discov. Causes Ireland (1787) 201 The under~sheriffs and bayliffs errant are better guides and spies.

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 35 Baylifes Errant are those that the Sherife maketh and appointeth to go about the County to execute Writs, to summon the county, Sessions, assises and such like.

bailiff-peer n. an assessor of the bailiff of a town.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > bailiff > assessors of

bailiff-peer1707

1707 London Gaz. No. 4338/1 The humble Address of the Bailiff, Recorder..Bailiff-Peers, Town Clerk, and Burgesses of Wenlock.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bailiff
释义	bailiffn. Brit. /ˈbeɪlɪf/, U.S. /ˈbeɪlᵻf/ Forms: Middle English baillif, Middle English–1600s bailif, Middle English balyf, Middle English baillyve, 1500s bailliff, baliffe, balyfe, balyve, balive, baylyff, bailiefe, 1500s–1600s bailiffe, baylife, bayliffe, 1600s baliffe, bailive, bayllive, 1600s–1700s bayliff, 1500s– bailiff. Etymology: Middle English baillif , < Old French baillif, object case of baillis (12th cent.) < late Latin bājulīvus , properly an adjective < bājulus , originally ‘carrier,’ afterwards ‘carrier on, manager, administrator.’ (See bail n.¹ and compare bājulāre under bail v.¹ Bājulīvus thus meant ‘(one) having the nature or character of a bājulus.’ In medieval Latin ballivus, baillivus, balivus, from the French and English words.) 1. One charged with public administrative authority in a certain district. a. In England, formerly applied to the king's officers generally, including sheriffs, mayors, etc., nominated by him, but especially to the chief officer of a hundred; still the title of the chief magistrate of various towns, as the High-bailiff of Westminster, and of the keeper of some of the royal castles, as the Bailiff of Dover Castle. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > bailiff bailie1297 bailiff1297 Moabite1699 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 473 That ple solde be ibroȝt Biuore the king and is bailifs. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6445 Ietro him gaf counsaile. vnder baillifes [Vesp. baillis, Gött. bayles, Trin. Cambr. bailies] ham to sette. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxi. 213 The quene sent in hast to the Baillifs of wynchestre. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 290 His father..was then Bailive of Hemlingford hundred. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 568 The bailiffs of hundreds and tythings and boroughs, with their people. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 290/1 The sheriff is called the King's bailiff, and his county is his bailiwick. 1873 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 102 The gerefa, who becomes after the Conquest the bailiff of the hundred. 1873 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 561 In those towns in which there was no mayor, the presidency of the local courts remained with the bailiffs. figurative.1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. v. 69 in Church-hist. Brit. Down comes the Bailiffe of Bedford (so the Country-people commonly call the overflowing of the River Ouse) attended..with many servants..and breaks down all their paper-banks. b. Used as the English form of the title of various foreign magistrates; e.g. the French bailli, and German Landvogt; also of the bailly or first civil officer in the Channel Islands, and formerly also of the Scottish bailie n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > specifically in foreign countries sheriffa1225 bailiff1681 1681 Act (Scotl.), London Gaz. No. 1649/2 Sheriffs, Stewards, Bailiffs of Royalty and Regality. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 23 One of the Magistrates of Glasgow..made a Bailiff by the Archbishop. 1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of Jersey v. 129 Bailiff and Jurats of the said Isle for the time being. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xliii. 286 The great bailiff of the district, of which there are about twenty five in the Hanoverian dominions. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 160 Henry, while yet Bailiff of the Empire, during the captivity of Baldwin. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iii. 77 De Griyse formerly bailiff of Bruges. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxiii. 524 The Bailiff, or Judge, is the first civil officer in each island. 1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) I. ii. ii. 492 A royal envoy, the bailiff of Lyons. 2. An officer of justice under a sheriff, who executes writs and processes, distrains, and arrests; a warrant officer, pursuivant, or catchpoll. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff beadlec1000 ridemanlOE cacherela1325 outrider1332 bailiff1377 catchpolea1382 bailiec1386 officer?1387 sheriff's manc1400 attacher1440 messenger1482 tipped staffc1500 servitor1527 bailie-errant1528 processar1534 bum-bailiff1560 tipstaff1570 nut-hook1600 saffo1607 servera1612 bailiff-errant1612 bum-bailey1615 process servera1616 buckle-bosom1622 bumbee1653 exploiter1653 moar1656 bum1659 bummer1675 bumbail1696 bulldog1699 sheriff's officer1703 bum-trap1749 bound-bailiff1768 shelly-coata1774 body snatcher1778 lurcher1785 fool-finder1796 messenger1801 bugaboo1809 borough-bailiff1812 sheriff mair1812 speciality1815 grab1823 legalist1835 candy man1863 writter1882 sheriff1928 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 59 Shireues and here clerkes, Bedelles and Bailliues. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Evj Ther someners & ther scribes..With balyues and catchpolles. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xix. f. 67 Returned by the Shiriffe and warned by his bayliffe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 95 He hath bene since an Ape-bearer, then a Processe-seruer (a Bayliffe ). View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 330. ⁋3 I was arrested and conveyed..to a Bayliff's house. 1863 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (ed. 2) 326 A bailiff making an inventory of goods on which he has taken execution. figurative.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 24 The conscience is but Gods Bayliff. 3. The agent of the lord of a manor, who collects rents, etc.; the steward of a landholder, who manages his or her estate; one who superintends the husbandry of a farm for its owner or tenant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property town-reeveeOE reeveeOE gravec1175 procuratorc1300 dispender1340 provost1340 bailiec1375 officerc1375 dispenserc1380 proctora1382 dispensator1382 farmerc1384 approverc1386 husbanda1387 stewardc1405 chamberlain1423 procurer1477 factor1520 bailiff1528 land-steward1535 improver1536 grieve1537 amtman1582 administrator1596 stead-man1609 dapifer1636 vogt1694 house jobber1709 commissioner1760 foreman1774 house agent1793 ground-officer1815 land-agent1846 wic-reeve1853 steadward1876 house farmer1882 house-knacker1884 land-sergeant1894 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. vii Whiche they shall delyuer vnto the Stewarde or baylyffe. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xx. sig. eviii Whan he..founde his possessions..distroyed..He sayd to his baylife, I wold surely punisshe the. 1617 Janua Linguarum 526 The baliffe gathereth-in harvest into the barne. 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 75 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) My Bayliff told me, 'Twas none of his Fault. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. ii. 156 Here's Father January taken a lease of March month, and put in Jack Frost for bailiff. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 72 I'm going over one of the farms..with the bailiff. Compounds C1. bailiff-haunted adj. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [adjective] > haunted by bailiffs bailiff-haunted1812 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Cui Bono in Rejected Addr. ix The bailiff-haunted throng. C2. † bailiff-errant n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff beadlec1000 ridemanlOE cacherela1325 outrider1332 bailiff1377 catchpolea1382 bailiec1386 officer?1387 sheriff's manc1400 attacher1440 messenger1482 tipped staffc1500 servitor1527 bailie-errant1528 processar1534 bum-bailiff1560 tipstaff1570 nut-hook1600 saffo1607 servera1612 bailiff-errant1612 bum-bailey1615 process servera1616 buckle-bosom1622 bumbee1653 exploiter1653 moar1656 bum1659 bummer1675 bumbail1696 bulldog1699 sheriff's officer1703 bum-trap1749 bound-bailiff1768 shelly-coata1774 body snatcher1778 lurcher1785 fool-finder1796 messenger1801 bugaboo1809 borough-bailiff1812 sheriff mair1812 speciality1815 grab1823 legalist1835 candy man1863 writter1882 sheriff1928 1612 J. Davies Discov. Causes Ireland (1787) 201 The under~sheriffs and bayliffs errant are better guides and spies. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 35 Baylifes Errant are those that the Sherife maketh and appointeth to go about the County to execute Writs, to summon the county, Sessions, assises and such like. bailiff-peer n. an assessor of the bailiff of a town. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > bailiff > assessors of bailiff-peer1707 1707 London Gaz. No. 4338/1 The humble Address of the Bailiff, Recorder..Bailiff-Peers, Town Clerk, and Burgesses of Wenlock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1297
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