Eksempler på sheriff

• Circular letters were dispatched to the high sheriffs of all counties, requesting information on all convicts under sentence of transportation who were still in their care.

• There the king forbade anyone to do the abbot any injustice (unriht); here the king orders the sheriffs to use their position to stop anyone from doing him injustice (iniusticia).

• Politics, in this view, is strategic interaction amongst self-interested agents in institutional contexts with no external enforcement mechanism (like sheriffs and courts in an economic contracting setting).

• During a sequence of leapfrogging justice extending over five years, the respective duties of sheriffs, marshals, court clerks, federal commissioners, and judges would all become issues of litigation.

• He made them sheriffs and parish judges.

• Capital punishment plays an important role in state politics ; all serious politicians, judges and sheriffs seeking election or re-election do so on a pro-capital punishment platform.

• No decision has yet been made on the issue of the accountability of high sheriffs, under sheriffs and sheriff's officers.

• In addition, sheriffs undertook judicial business in chambers.