Bailli
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Fr. [from bailler, to deliver.] In old French law. A person to whom a judicial authority and jurisdiction were assigned or delivered by a superior. The term was applied both to those high officers who were appointed to act as judges in different districts of the kingdom, and to the inferior officers who presided in the lords' courts. 1 Rob. Charles V. Appendix, note xxiii. Esprit des Lois, liv.
28, c. 42.
See Bailiff.
See Bailiff.