bailiffs of hundreds

bailiffs of hundreds
Officers appointed by sheriffs in their respective hundreds to collect fines therein, to summon juries, to attend the judges at assizes and quarter sessions and to execute writs and process. See 1 Bl Comm 345.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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