shrievalty

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff (chiefly in reference to the British office; uncommon in reference to the American office).

   “--Can any of your readers inform me the origin of the delivery of water-buckets, glazed and painted with the city arms, given to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex at the expiration of the year of their shrievalty?”