Sheriff

Notable quotes

“It would look very strange, when the Commons of England are so fond of their right of sending representatives to Parliament, that it should be in the power of a sheriff, or other officer, to deprive them of that right, and yet that they should have no remedy; it is a thing to be admired at by all mankind.”
— John Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 954.
“I do really believe you, Mr. Sheriff; you have done like an honest man.”
— John Keating, C.J., Case of John Price and others (1689), 12 How St. Tr. 625.
“I shot the sheriff / But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! Oh!”
— Bob Marley, I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973).
“The sheriffs of London have been immemorially the sheriff of Middlesex.”
— Joseph Yates, J., Case of John Wilkes (1763), 19 How. St. Tr. 1096.

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