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Bailiwick

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The jurisdiction of a sheriff or bailiff. 1 Bl. Comm. 344, A liberty or exclusive jurisdiction which was exempted from the sheriflf of the county, and over which the lord appointed a bailiff, with such powers within his precinct as the under sheriff exercised under the sheriflf of the county.

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