Sentence examples for bailiff from from inspiring English sources

About a week ago a bailiff from the Wayne County treasurer's office blocked West and activists from Detroit Eviction Defense from entering her home, as day-laborers hired from the county threw her remaining belongings into a dumpster parked out front.

We presented a DVD that was made in front of a bailiff from the original tape... not from the various copies you can find here and there".

Nowadays, people who have been evicted from their homes and organizations like consumer organizations, residents associations, labour unions and the Plataforma de Afectados por las Hipotecas (PAH, spanish for Platform for those Affected by Mortgages) are systematically organizing to stop the court bailiff from evicting families who failed to keep up with the mortgage payments.

New Land League activists occupied the property and prevented bailiffs from entering it.

Soon, people across Spain were joining together to campaign against mortgage lenders, occupy banks and physically block bailiffs from carrying out evictions.

The Moscow arbitration court yesterday adjourned until next week hearings of a plea by Yukos to stop bailiffs from enforcing collection of its $3.4bn tax bill.

City of London police, who were supported by the Met, said 23 arrests were made during the "largely peaceful" eviction as bailiffs from City of London Corporation removed tents and equipment from outside St Paul's.

It sounds like the ultimate good deed – paying off the debt of someone you don't know who is in desperate financial straits and keeping bailiffs from their door.

Sometimes this means joining them in a meeting or finding them a lawyer, sometimes it means peacefully preventing bailiffs from dragging them out on to the street and demanding the council rehouse them locally and immediately.

I have been told that this is not possible and that the only way to stop the bailiffs from coming around or getting a county court judgment (CCJ) is to pay the debt off in one lump sum.

The safeguards, introduced by the Ministry of Justice, will prevent bailiffs from visiting a property outside the hours of 6am-9pm; from using force against people who owe money; and from fixing their own enforcement fees – the government is introducing a set fee structure designed "to end excessive and multiple fees".