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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 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..

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

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Same as Bailie.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A division for the stalls of an open stable.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

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

Bail :: Bail (n.) A certain limit within a forest.

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

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..

Bailee :: Bailee (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust..

Hire :: Hire (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward..

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

Bail Bond :: Bail bond () A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ..

Factor :: Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one..

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

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