Examples of sheriff

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Suppose that these consequentialists agree that the cautious but willing sheriff's action maximizes good consequences, and hence is the right action.
Paid a percentage of taxes collected, sheriffs often made small fortunes. 122.
Still, a survey of the laws regulating sheriffs, marshals, clerks, custom collectors, surveyors, and so forth, is striking for its continuity with the past.
Company-paid sheriffs kept the towns free of labour organizers, and could even expel miners, family members, and visitors whom the company did not like.
Although the 1868 constitution prevented making parish sheriffs into appointees, it did not prevent stripping them of their tax assessment and collection duties.
The justices of oyer and terminer would have to select their jury from an unreformed panel - one prepared by the whig sheriffs.
In some areas sheriffs were willing to hear defamation cases.
Together with the mayor and sheriffs, usually chosen from their ranks, the aldermen formed an oligarchic, self-perpetuating executive and judicial body.
The company owned virtually everything: the land, schools, churches, sheriffs, housing, and a commissary that routinely overcharged its captive customers.
Is the willing sheriff's character trait a virtue?
First, employers secured the appointment of deputy sheriffs and deputy marshals whose principal loyalty was to them rather than to the state.
The fact that men served repeatedly on juries under different sheriffs also suggests that patronage was not the sole governing factor in selection.
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