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Bailivia

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In old law. A bailiffs jurisdiction, a bailiwick; the same as badliwm.

Spelman.

See LBariiwick, In old English law. A liberty, or exclusive jurisdiction, which was exempted from the skeriff of the county, and over which the lord of the liberty appointed a bailiff with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exercised under the sheriff of the county.

Whishaw.