serjeant-at-arms

Noun

  • An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit.
  • A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested.

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