- special bailiffs
- "Mean persons" employed by sheriffs to aid bailiffs of hundreds and to serve writs and executions and make arrests. See 1 Bl Comm 345.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
special bailiffs
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