Balliva

Baliva. L. Lat.

In old law and practice. A bailiwick; the district or territory under the jurisdiction of a sheriff; a sheriff's county. Co. Litt. 61 b. Infra-nominatus A. B. non est inventus in balliva mea; the within named A. B. is not found in my bailiwick. Kitch. Ret. Brev. 287. This is still in strictness the proper form of a sheriff's return to process, where the party ordered to be arrested has not been found; though the emphatic words "not found" are all that are usually endorsed on the writ. A district or place of jurisdiction, in general. See Baliva.