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Definition of Sheriff
1. Noun. The principal law-enforcement officer in a county.
Definition of Sheriff
1. n. The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace.
Definition of Sheriff
1. Noun. (British) ''excl.'' (Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders and other duties. ¹
2. Noun. (Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom. ¹
3. Noun. (American English) A police officer, usually the chief of police for a county or other district. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sheriff
1. a law-enforcement officer of a county [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheriff
Literary usage of Sheriff
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"And if the old sheriff, after arresting a defendant, suffer him to escape, and
go out of office before the return day, be alone » answerable for the escape. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"And no under-sheriff or sheriff's officer shall practise as an attorney during the
... Bailiffs, or sheriff's officers, are either bailiffs of hundreds, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1875)
"And no under-sheriff or sheriff's officer shall practise as an attorney during
... The under-sheriff hath not, nor ought to have, any interest in the office ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"In that case the court say : "The payment by the defendants to the sheriff of
the debt due Yerkes was without authority and did not discharge the obligation ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1849)
"The sheriff is bound, since the Uniformity of Process Act, ... Z. If the sheriff
executes a writ after a direction of the plaintiff not to execute, ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"In an action by a board of county commissioners against a sheriff and bis bondsmen
to recover an amount due for taxes and penalties, defendants could not ..."
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