BAILIFF Copy link • BAILIFFadministrator: procurator (manager of the affairs of an absentee by commission): villicus (an under-steward of a manor): to commit the management of an estate to a bailiff, villicum fundo familiaeque praeponere: apparitor (an officer of a court of justice, whose business it is to execute arrests, etc.; also lictor: but these words answer in part only to our bailiff or catchpoll): the high bailiff, quaesitor ac judex primus.