When you dream of seeing a bailiff it represents your actions that you have done over the top, not the way you supposed to do them and now is the time to see the consequences of things you did. If you see yourself being apprehended it means that you need to try be better and superior within your professional movements. The solidity in you is being doubted.
Dream dictionary: Bailiff dream meanings
Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect. If the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying to work for your money.
Dreaming of a bailiff can be an indicator of traps, snares, accusations and intrigues by false friends.
Warning to be cautious against bad people, losing the first lover, being cheated in business.
…Dreaming of seeing a sheriff, denotes that you will suffer great uneasiness over the uncertain changes which loom up before you. To imagine that you are elected sheriff or feel interested in the office, denotes that you will participate in some affair which will afford you neither profit nor honor. To escape arrest, you will be able to further engage in illicit affairs. See Bailiff and Police….