23.—Sheriff elerk. The clerk of the sheriff's court in Scotland.—Sheriff depute. In Scotch law. The principal sheriff of a county, who is also a pt EP en yr amen A rent formerly Bains by a: sheriff, and it is prayed that the sheriff in his account may be discharged thereof. Rot. Parl. §0 Edw. III.—Sheriff-teoth. In English law. A tenure by the service of providing entertainment for the sheriff at his county-courts; a common tax, formerly levied for the sheriff's diet. Wharton.—Sheriff’s court. The court held before the sheriff’s deputy, that is, the under-sheriff, and wherein actions are brought for recovery of debts under £20. Writs of inquiry are also brought here to be executed. The sheriff’'s court for the county of Middlesex is that wherein damages are in proper cases after trial at Westminster. Brown.—Sheriff’s jury. In practice. A jury composed of no determinate number, but which may be more or ri than Dube eestor ep by the shen ce the purposes of an inquisition or inquest of office. . Comm. $58.—Sherlif’s officers. Bailiffs, who are either bailiffs of hundreds or bound-baillffs.—Sheriff’s sale. See SaLE.— Sheriff’s tourn., A court of record in England, held twice every year, within a month after Easter and Michaelmas, before the sheriff, in different parts of the county. It is, indeed, only the twrn or rotation of the sheriff to keen a court-leet in each respective hundred. It ig the great court-leet of the county, as the Coynt¥