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• Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601-1625 (Phillimore and Co., 1897), by George E. Cokayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of laws relating to the offices and duties of sheriff, coroner and constable. (Printed for the author [W. A. Davis, print.], 1812), by Joseph Backus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duties of sheriffs, coroners, and constables : With practical forms (Gould, Banks & Co. ;, 1855), by John G. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new Conductor generalis : being a summary of the law relative to the duty and office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, constables, jurymen, overseers of the poor, &c., &c., with many new and improved subjects, alphabetically arranged, comprising a variety of practical forms : all of which have been carefully collated with the revised laws of the state of New York, and will be found useful to citizens, lawyers and magistrates (Printed for and sold by D. & S. Whiting ..., 1803), by Gentleman of the law (page images at HathiTrust)
• A general instructer : or, The office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, constables, jailors, and jurymen, with precedents, suited to every case that can that can possibly arise, in the discharge of the duties in either of those offices. The whole alphabetically digested. To which is added a guide, to Superior, and County court clerks ; an epitome of Blackstone's Commentaries ; law maxims ; remedies by action, and law fictions. (Printed for the author, by T.T. Bradford., 1820), by John Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheriffs' departments 1993 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of JusticePrograms, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1996), by Brian Reaves, Pheny Z. Smith, and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duties of sheriffs, coroners and constables, with practical forms. (Banks & Brothers, 1890), by John G. Crocker and James M. Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The duties of sheriffs, coroners and constables, with practical forms. (Banks & brothers, 1871), by John G. Crocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new Conductor generalis : being a summary of the law relative to the duty and office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, constables, jurymen, overseers of the poor, &c. &c., with many new and improved subjects, alphabetically arranged : comprising a variety of practical forms : all which have been carefully collated with the new Revised laws of the State of New-York : and will be found useful to citizens, lawyers and magistrates (Published by E.F. Backus no. 67, State Street, 1819) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheriffs' departments, 1997 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000), by Andrew L. Goldberg, Brian A. Reaves, and United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the powers and duties of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, and constables, in the state of Nebraska : with appropriate forms. (State Journal company, 1894), by Samuel Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the offices of high sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff, etc. : Including their duties at elections of members of Parliament and coroners ; and at assizes, sessions, & parliamentary election courts ; also on railway compensation cases, and the execution of writs (H. Sweet, 1878), by George Atkinson and Rudolph E. Melsheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• NIJ survey of police chiefs and sheriffs (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1995), by National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter to John Wilkes, Esq; Sheriff of London and Middlesex: In Which the Extortion and Oppression of Sheriffs Officers, With Many Other Alarming Abuses, Are Exemplified and Detected; and a Remedy Proposed, by Robert Holloway (Gutenberg ebook)

• A synopsis of the laws relating to sheriffs in the execution of writs, illustrated by upwards of seven hundred cases ... (Charles F. Maxwell, 1883), by Richard Colles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Duties of sheriffs and constables, particularly under the practice in California, and the Pacific states and territories. With practical forms for official use. (Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1895), by W. S. Harlow and Fred Lawrence Button (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duties of sheriffs and constables, particularly under the practice in California and the Pacific states and territories : with practical forms for official use (Bancroft Whitney, 1907), by W. S. Harlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survey of California police and sheriff's departments : a report prepared from information elicited from a questionnaire distributed to 326 chiefs of police and 58 sheriffs in the state of California. (Sacramento, 1957), by California. Criminal Identification and Information Branch, California Office of the Attorney General, and California. Department of Justice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sheriff's instructions (Cape times, Govt. printers, 1908), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Conductor generalis (Printed and sold by James Parker ;, 1764), by William Blackstone, Richard Burn, and James Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ... ; to which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by Will. Shrowsbery ..., 1683), by Matthew Hale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A briefe summary of the lavves and statutes of England so far forth as the same do concerne the office of justices of the peace, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, churchwardens, and other officers and ministers of the commonwealth : together with divers other matters not onely acceptable for their rarity, but also very necessary for their great use and profit, for all persons, but especially for such as bear office in this common-wealth / collected by Nicholas Collyn ... (London : Printed by T.L. for Mathew VValbancke ..., 1655), by Nicholas Collyn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An exact account of the trial between Sr. William Pritchard, Kt. and alderman of the city of London, plaintiff, and Thomas Papillon, Esq, defendant in an action upon the case at the sessions of nisi prius holden for the Court of King's Bench at the Guild-Hall in the city of London, on Thursday the 6th of November, 1684, in Michaelmas term, in the 36th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, before Sir George Jefferies, Kt. and Baronet, then Lord Chief Justice of the said Court of King's Bench : to which is added, the matter of fact relating to election of sheriffs, as it was printed in the year 1682. (London : Printed and sold by Richard Janeway ..., 1689), by William Pritchard, Thomas Papillon, and England and Wales. Court of King's Bench (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Right of electing sheriffs of London and Middlesex, briefly stated and declared (London : Printed for R. Dew, 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise collected out of the statutes of this commonwealth, and according to common experience of the lawes, concerning the office and authorities of coroners and sherifes together with an easie and plaine method for the keeping of a court leet, court baron, and hundred court, &c. / by John Wilkinson of Bernards Inne, Gent. ; to which is added the returne of writts by John Kitchin Esq ; now all published in English. (London : Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, R. Best, and G. Bedell ..., 1651), by John Wilkinson and John Kitchin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Wednesday, February 13, 1655, at the council at Whitehall forasmuch as for many years last past, complaints have been made of the excessive charges with which the office of sheriff hath been burdened ... (London : Printed by Henry Hills, and Iohn Field, Printers to his Highness, 1655), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and Oliver Cromwell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Sheriff of Pecos (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by H. Bedford-Jones (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sheriff of the Beech Fork: A Story of Kentucky (third edition; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., 1903), by Henry S. Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rider of Golden Bar. (A.L. Burt, 1922), by William Patterson White, Remington Schuyler, and Decorative Designers (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sheriff of Vacada; a western story. (Chelsea House, 1929), by Joseph Montague (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• By order of Buck Brady, by W. C. Tuttle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tied Up for Tombstone, by W. C. Tuttle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Loco or Love, by W. C. Tuttle, illust. by D'Alton Valentine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Paid off, by Walt Coburn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland, by George Pattullo (Gutenberg ebook)

• Essai sur les baillis et sénéchaux royaux (Imp. Morand, 1898), by Octave Tixier (page images at HathiTrust)

• The office and duty of a justice of the peace, and a guide to clerks, constables, coroners, executors, administrators, guardians, sheriffs, tax-collectors, and receivers, and other civil officers, according to the laws of the state of Georgia : with an appendix, containing a collection of the most approved forms, together with the constitution of this state, and the constitution of the United States, with amendments to each (Milledgeville : Published by S. Grantland, 1819., 1819), by Augustin S. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The medieval English sheriff to 1300 (The University Press;, 1927), by William Alfred Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighteenth century documents relating to the royal forests, the sheriffs and smuggling : selected from the Shelburne manuscripts in the William L. Clements library (Macmillan, 1928), by William L. Clements Library, Arthur Lyon Cross, and William Petty Lansdowne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practice of the office of sheriff and under-sheriff; shewing the powers and duties of those offices. The manner of appointing the high sheriff, under-sheriff; and their deputies. The elections of the sheriffs of London and Middle-sex, with the bye-laws of the city relating thereto. The nature of actions by and against sheriffs. (J. & W. T. Clarke, 1835), by John Impey and Henry Jeremy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of sheriff law : especially in relation to writs of execution (Stevens, 1894), by Philip Edward Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
• The practice of the office of sheriff and under sheriff : shewing the powers and duties of those offices, the manner of appointing the high sheriff, under sheriffs, and their deputies, the election of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, with the bye-laws of the city relating thereto, the nature of actions by and against sheriffs, including all the modern determinations and necessary precedents of returns to writs, &c., also, the practice of the office of coroner, shewing the mode of his appointment, with the powers and duties of taking inquisitions, and mode of holding courts, &c., to each of which works are added copious appendixes of useful precedents (Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1812), by John Impey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pleas of the crown : in two parts : or, A methodical summary of the principal matters relating to that subject. : with several hundred references, never before printed, to the ancient and modern books of the law : and likewise three other treatises by Sir Matthew Hale, viz. Of Sheriffs accompts, Trial of witches, and Provisions for the poor (Printed by J.N. assignee of Edw. Sayer, for D. Brown, M. Wotton, W. Mears, J. Brown, and T. Woodward, 1716), by Matthew Hale and Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sheriff Sumner's discourse (Freeman & Bolles ..., 1829), by Charles Pinckney Sumner and Suffolk Bar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Officium vicecomitum. The office and authority of sheriffs: gathered out of the statutes, and books of the common laws of this kingdom. (Printed by the assigns of Richard Atkins, and Edward Atkins, esquires, 1682), by Michael Dalton and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of distresses, replevins, and avowries : in the courts at Westminster, County Courts, Hundred Courts, etc. : shewing how the law is alter'd by the late statutes for the more effectual securing the payment of rents, and preventing frauds by tenants : with plain and easy directions how to distrain for rent, form of the notice to the tenant, inventory, appraiser's oath, etc. : also divers statutes touching the office of sheriffs, and passing their patents and accounts : and the law concering elections and returns of members of Parliament, etc (Printed by H. Lintot, for J. Worrall, 1746) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report, together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on High Sheriffs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The armorial and genealogical roll of the High Sheriffs of the counties in England and Wales, 1883-4. (Mitchell and Hughes, 1884), by E. Alberton Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The medieval English sheriff to 1300 (The University press ;, 1927), by William Alfred Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Compleat sheriff : wherein is set forth, his office and authority; : with directions, how and in what manner to execute the same, according to the common and statute laws of the kingdom, which are now in force and use ... (In the Savoy :, 1727) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the offices of high sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff, etc. : Including their duties at elections of members of Parliament and coroners ; and at assizes, sessions, & parliamentary election courts ; also on railway compensation cases, and the execution of writs (H. Sweet, 1878), by George Atkinson and Rudolph E. Melsheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chaucer's franklin, epicurean or royal official. (1921), by Mary Louella Gitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A practical treatise on the law relating to the office and duty of sheriff: comprising the whole of the duties, remuneration, and liabilities of sheriffs, in the execution and return of writs, and in the election of knights of the shire. (S. Sweet; [etc., etc.], 1827), by William Henry Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of sheriff, with practical forms and precedents (John S. Littell, 1845), by Richard Clarke Sewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Office et auctoryte des iustyces de peas. English. Selections (Imprynted at London : By Thomas Marshe, [not after 1579]), by Anthony Fitzherbert and Gabriel Harvey (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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