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Tipstaff vs. Bailiff — What's the Difference?

Tipstaff vs. Bailiff — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tipstaff and Bailiff

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Tipstaff

The Tipstaff is an officer of a court or, in some countries, a law clerk to a judge. The duties of the position vary from country to country.

Bailiff

A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French baillis, bail "custody, charge, office"; cf. bail, based on the adjectival form, baiulivus, of Latin bajulus, carrier, manager) is a manager, overseer or custodian; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given.

Tipstaff

A staff with a metal tip, carried as a sign of office.

Bailiff

A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial.

Tipstaff

An officer, such as a bailiff or constable, who carries a tipstaff.
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Bailiff

An official who assists a British sheriff and who has the power to execute writs, processes, and arrests.

Tipstaff

A ceremonial staff, with a metal tip, carried by a constable or bailiff etc as a sign of office

Bailiff

Chiefly British An overseer of an estate; a steward.

Tipstaff

An officer, of a court etc. who carries such a staff

Bailiff

(law enforcement) An officer of the court, particularly:

Tipstaff

A staff tipped with metal.

Bailiff

A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.

Tipstaff

An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

Bailiff

(UK) A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.

Tipstaff

Staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable

Bailiff

(UK) A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.

Bailiff

(US) Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.

Bailiff

A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.

Bailiff

A public administrator, particularly:

Bailiff

(obsolete) A king's man: any officer nominated by the English Crown.

Bailiff

(historical) hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.

Bailiff

The title of the mayor of certain English towns.

Bailiff

The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.

Bailiff

The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

Bailiff

The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.

Bailiff

(obsolete) A bailie: an alderman in certain Scottish towns.

Bailiff

(historical) An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.

Bailiff

(historical) A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.

Bailiff

(historical) A landvogt in the medieval German states.

Bailiff

A private administrator, particularly Steward

Bailiff

(historical) A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.

Bailiff

(historical) An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).

Bailiff

The foreman or overman of a mine.

Bailiff

Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.

Bailiff

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 powers of custody or care are intrusted.
Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate.

Bailiff

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

Bailiff

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.

Bailiff

An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.

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