Bailiwick

bailywike, Balliva, baliva, bailivia, balia, ballia, balivatus, I. I., Baillie, bailly, I. fr. The district or jurisdiction of a bailiff or sheriff. In the old law, a liberty or exclusive jurisdiction which was exempted from the sheriff 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; a county.