Baliva
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or BALLIVA. Equivalent to halivatus. Bolivia, a bailiwick; the jurisdiction of a sheriff; the whole district within which the trust of the sheriff was to be executed.
Cowell.
Occurring in the return of the sheriff, non est inventus in balliva mea, he has not been found in my bailiwick; afterwards abbreviated to the simple non est inventus.
3 Bl. Comm. 283.
BALIVO AMOVENDO (Law Lat. for removing a bailiff). A writ to remove a bailiff out of his office.