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Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (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..

Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc..

Justify :: Justify (v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..

Vadium :: Vadium (n.) Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..

Errant :: Errant (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.

Ne Exeat :: Ne exeat () A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree..

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