Bailiff (disambiguation)
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Bailiff usually refers to law enforcement officers involved with lower courts of the United Kingdom or providing courtroom security and order in the United States.
Bailiff may refer to:
- bailiff (French: bailli), a medieval governor in areas of northern France
- bailiff (French: bailli), a knight Hospitaller who directed one of its bailiwicks abroad or one of the national associations ("tongues") at its headquarters
- steward, a general manager of medieval estates
- landvogt, a German office
- High Bailiff of the Isle of Man
- bailiffs of Jersey and Guernsey, the chief justice and head of the legislature of the bailwicks of the Channel Islands
- huissier de justice, an office in various European countries
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