Note 52 — Chapter VII · OF HIS RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT
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If execution be directed to a sheriff to arrest any man or to make execution within a liberty, and the sheriff directs his warrant to a [l. the] bailiff of the liberty for to make execution of the process, 'who' makes it, and after is a fugitive, and not able to answer for that, the lord of the franchise shall answer for that, and shall be liable to answer for his bailiff by all the justices. 2 Brownlow. 50.
[53] Before this statute, when the return which the bailiff of the franchise made to the sheriff was not sufficient, the court has refused to amerce the bailiff, because he was not minister to the court. T. 20 E. 3. Fitz. Retourne del vicount. 113.