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Definition of Marshals
1. Noun. The United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system.
Group relationships: Department Of Justice, Doj, Justice, Justice Department
Generic synonyms: Law Enforcement Agency
Definition of Marshals
1. Verb. (third-person singular of marshal) ¹
2. Noun. (plural of marshal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marshals
1. marshal [v] - See also: marshal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marshals
Literary usage of Marshals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of James Abram Garfield by James Abram Garfield (1882)
"IN the State of California expenses amounting to $7600 were incurred, in the
election of 1879, in the appointment of special deputy marshals. ..."
2. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1914)
"COMPENSATION OF CLERKS AND Marshals. § 52. Compensation of Clerks and Marshals.—a
Clerks shall respectively receive as full compensation for their services ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1889)
"Stat provides that, "The marshals and their deputies shall have, in each State,
... As to power of marshals to arrest persons found operating illicit ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"For special deputy-marshals of elections, the sum of $7600 : Provided, ...
and that all appointments of such special deputy-marshals having any duty to ..."
5. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Marshals in our States, however, successfully use infantry, and recently in
Tennessee eight persons, who were concerned in the Gibson County outrage were ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law and Proceedings in Bankruptcy by Frank Olds Loveland (1912)
"Marshals. The word "officer," as used in the act, including a marshal, and the
imposing of duty upon or the forbidding of an act by any officer includes his ..."
7. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1853)
"Marshals OF THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."
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