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n

  1. A federal court employee with police-like powers who provides security, guards prisoners, and seizes property in execution of judgments, among other functions.
  2. A state or local official with responsibilities like those of a sheriff.
  3. Arranging in order of priority or in a logical pattern.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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