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n. - The post of a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law

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  • With him, Norfolk, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head.
  • The police force from this city, amounting to about sixty men, are under the marshalship of
  • No later than the night before the vacancy in the marshalship had fallen; it would not do to allow the town to go unbridled for even another night.
  • I had a deputy marshalship all lined up for you if that hadn't happened.
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