0 in the US, an official whose job is to be in charge of performing the orders of the law courts and making certain that the laws are obeyed within a particular county -- （美國的）郡保安官
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.
