Assertion: sheriff's duty | /r/HasProperty | conferred on individual
Facets:
value: by the government
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A public charge of employment... the most frequent occasions to use the word arise with reference to a duty and power conferred on an individual by the government, and when this is the connection, public office is a usual and more discriminating expression... in the constitutional sense, the term implies an authority to exercise some portion of the sovereign power either in making, executing, or administering the laws.