Wilful transgression
contrary to
3 G. 2. c. 25. § 4.
By § 4. if any sheriff shall wilfully transgress [in returning any persons as jurors to serve on trials at any assizes or nisi prius, or at the great sessions, or at the sessions for the counties palatine who have served within the space of one year before in the county of Rutland, or four years in the county of York, or of two years before in any other county, not being a county of a city or town,] any judge or justice of assize, or nisi prius, &c. may and is required, on examination and proof of such offence, in a summary way, to set a fine or fines upon every such offender as he shall think meet, not exceeding 5l. for any one offence.
Wilful transgression
contrary to
3 G. 2. c. 25. § 6.
By § 6. if any sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff or other officer shall wilfully transgress [in taking or receiving any money or other reward to excuse any person from serving or being summoned to serve on juries; or any bailiff or other officer appointed by any sheriff or undersheriff to summon juries, in summoning any person to serve thereon other than such whose name is specifyed in a mandate signed by such sheriff or undersheriff, and directed to such bailiff or other officer], any judge or justice of assize, nisi prius, &c. may and is required, on examination and proof of such offence, in a summary way, to set a fine or fines upon any person or persons so offending as he shall think meet, not exceeding 10l. according to the nature of the offence.
Offences against
32 G. 2. c. 28.
By 32 G. 2. c. 28. § 12. every sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff of any liberty, bailiff, serjeant at mace, gaoler and other officer and person as aforesaid, who shall in anywise offend against this act (see before C. 5.) shall, for every such offence (over and above such penalties and punishments as he or they shall be liable unto by the laws now in force) forfeit and pay to the party thereby aggrieved the sum of 50l. to be recovered with treble costs of suit, by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, in any of his Majestys courts of record at Westminster.
Account.
By Stat. de Marleberge (52 H. 3. c. 23.) if bailiffs which ought to make account to their lords do withdraw themselves and have no lands nor tenements whereby they may be distrained, they shall be attached by their bodies, so that the sheriff in whose bailiwick they be found shall cause them to come to make their account.
Wreck and stray, &c.
Account lies of wreck and stray though the bailiff does not seize it; for he shall account of all that he received and might have received. Br. Accompt. pl. 94. (cites 10 H. 7. 6.)