Two Sheriffs are selected annually by Common Hall, which meets on Midsummer's Day for the purpose.

* Sheriffs are administrative legal officials similar to bailiffs in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, and Canada ( with expanded duties in certain provinces ).

* Sheriffs are judges in Scotland.

Sheriffs are in charge of certain legal matters that typically involve registration of some sort and executing the orders of the court.

Sheriffs are usually advocates and, increasingly, solicitors with many years of legal experience.

Police services are contracted through the Polk County Sheriffs Office Department.

The members are certified as peace officers with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services ( DCJS ) and are trained at either the Suffolk Police and / or Suffolk Sheriffs academy.

Image: Law enforcement marker in Pleasanton, TX IMG_2606. JPG |< center > Deputy Sheriffs Thomas Monse, Jr., and Mark Stephenson and state police trooper Terry Wayne Miller are commemorated in a marker in Pleasanton.

Sheriffs, Coroners, and Jailers are also exempted law enforcement officers.

Constables are empowered to enforce both criminal and civil laws, Police Officers are empowered to enforce criminal and traffic laws, Sheriffs are the chief law enforcement officer of the County and are empowered to enforce criminal and civil laws.

Sheriffs do have the authority to enforce traffic laws as defined in Commonwealth v. Leet ( 1994 ), however are not empowered to independently enforce DUI checkpoint as defined in Commonwealth John M. Marconi ( 2010 ).

The City's Sheriffs and the Lord Mayor are justices there, but their jurisdiction is now nominal.

The Sheriffs are resident with the senior judges in the complex.

* The Sheriffs Act 1887 ( c. 55 ) – the counties that High Sheriffs are appointed to are the preserved counties.

Liverymen of the Company are also members of the City's Common Hall and thus can vote in the election of the Lord Mayor of the City of London each year on Michaelmas Day ( 29 September ) or on the closest weekday, and also in the election of the Sheriffs of the City of London on every Midsummer's Day.

There are about a hundred and forty full-time Sheriffs in the various Courts and a number of part-time Sheriffs.

" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City, treated their King with a collation under a tent, placed in St. George's Fields ; and five or six hundred citizens cloathed in coats of black velvet, and ( not improperly ) wearing chains about their necks, by an order of the Common Council, attended on the triumph of that day ;... and those who had been so often defeated in the field, and had contributed nothing either of bravery or policy to this change, in ordering the souldiery to ride with swords drawn through the city of London to White Hall, the Duke of York and Monk leading the way ; and intimating ( as was supposed ) a resolution to maintain that by force which had been obtained by fraud.

Prior to 1839, the responsibility for policing in the City was divided between day and night, primarily under the two Sheriffs.

The Scottish Court Service publishes an online map, lists of Sheriffs, and the rules of the court under different procedures.

A good description of the men was secured by Deputy Sheriffs John Schell and Woody Smith, who conversed with the six men at a filing station at Highland avenue and Washington streets in Marion at about 2: 30 in the afternoon that day.

The Criminal Justice Information Systems Committees of the International Association of Chiefs of Police ( IACP ) and the National Sheriffs ' Association ( NSA ) serve in an advisory capacity to the UCR Program and encourage local police departments and sheriff's departments to participate fully in the program.

In Canada, the Alberta Sheriffs also employ the cartridge in the Glock 20.

It was also used by other agencies, including the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department and many other law enforcement agencies across the U. S. and Canada, as well as by military police units.

Historically, the court officers empowered to enforce High Court writs were called Sheriffs or Sheriff's Officers.

Only liverymen can take part in the election of the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and the other traditional officers of the City.

By the common law of England it was the duty of every liege subject to inform the king's justices and other officers of the law of all treasons and felonies of which the informant had knowledge, and to bring the offender to justice by arrest ( see Sheriffs Act 1887, s. 8 ).

In his book, The Hollywood Western: Ninety Years of Cowboys and Indians, Train Robbers, Sheriffs and Gunslingers, film historian William K. Everson refers to the Zane Grey series as being " uniformly good ".

" It shall be sufficient for Royal Proclamations to be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes ; but if the Lord President of the Council, thinking it expedient, directs that copies of such proclamations shall in addition be sent to such High Sheriffs, Sheriffs, Lord Mayors and Mayors in England and Wales and to such Sheriffs Principal in Scotland as he thinks fit, the contents of such proclamations shall thereupon be made known in the manner accustomed ".

The Sheriffs ( Scotland ) Act 1747 reduced the office of Sheriff Principal to a largely ceremonial one, with a sheriff depute or sheriff substitute appointed to each " county, shire or stewartry ".

Prior to 1841, the administrative and governmental system of Dublin, known as Dublin Corporation, was bicameral having an assembly of called the " House of Aldermen " and another called the " House of Sheriffs and Commons ".

In March 1892 Berry wrote his letter of resignation, probably without knowing that in October of the previous year the Home Office had already decided that " the employment of Berry as Executioner should no longer be recommended to the High Sheriffs ".

Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.

The activities of the Planning Division are defined in considerable detail in the enabling act of the Development Council, which assigns to the agency both broad responsibilities and specific duties in the field of planning.

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But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

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Traditionally, amphibians as a class are defined as all tetrapods with a larval stage, while the group that includes the common ancestors of all living amphibians ( frogs, salamanders and caecilians ) and all their descendants is called Lissamphibia.

Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

Cinematographic aspect ratios are usually denoted as a ( rounded ) decimal multiple of width vs unit height, while photographic and videographic aspect ratios are usually defined and denoted by whole number ratios of width to height.

Algebraic numbers are all numbers that can be defined explicitly or implicitly in terms of polynomials, starting from the rational numbers.

Most broadly, all numbers that can be defined explicitly or implicitly in terms of polynomials, exponentials, and logarithms are called " elementary numbers ", and these include the algebraic numbers, plus some transcendental numbers.

Angles are usually presumed to be in a Euclidean plane, but are also defined in non-Euclidean geometry.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

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There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.