Shire reve

Shire reve
Shire-reeve (spelled, also, Shire rieve, or Shire reve).
In Saxon law, the reeve or bailiff of the shire. The viscount of the Anglo-Normans, and the sheriff of later times. In early England, the senior law enforcement figure in a country; the forerunner of today's sheriff

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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