Bailiff vs Replevinger - What's the difference?
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(legal) A legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed.
(British) The steward or overseer of an estate.
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Bailiff is a related term of replevinger.
As nouns the difference between bailiff and replevinger
is that bailiff is (legal) a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed while replevinger is (legal|historical) an agent authorised by a sheriff to enforce a writ of replevin.bailiff
English
(wikipedia bailiff)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff , going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}