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Bailiwick
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BAILIWICK. The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county.
     2. In England, it signifies generally that liberty which is exempted from the sheriff of the county over which the lord of the liberty appoints a bailiff. Vide Wood's Inst. 206.



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Guenee, Tribunaux et Gens de Justice dans le bailliage de Senlis a la fin du Moyen Age vers 1380-vers 1550 (Paris, 1963).
Nobles, patricians and officers: the making of a regional political ... by Dumolyn, Jan / Journal of Social History
This was so common that people apparently had a special name for this function of the royal prison, as in 1785 when the son of a blacksmith presented the court with his request that he be freed from the bailliage "matrimonial prison.
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In the mid-1620s, for example, the mairie successfully fought off the bailliage of Dijon's claims that its officials, rather than municipal magistrates, should publicly invest mayors with their symbols of office.
Addressing la ville des dieux: entry ceremonies and urban audiences ... by Breen, Michael P. / Journal of Social History
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