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Chapter 13: Messengers-at-arms and sheriff officers

• 1. Introduction
• Messengers-at-arms
• Qualification as messengers-at-arms
• Appointment of messengers-at-arms
• Sheriff officers
• Qualification as an officer of the court
• Appointment of sheriff officer
• 2. What sheriff officers do
• Entering a home or workplace
• Forcing entry
• Checking an officer’s identity
• Eviction
• Exceptional attachment
• 3. Sheriff officer's powers to enforce debts from other parts of the UK
• 4. Making a complaint about a sheriff officer