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bailiwick noun area, arena, authority, circle, district, domain, dominion, enclave, field, haunt, orbit, precinct, province, purlieu, realm, region, specialty, sphere, sway, territory, ward See also: domain, realm BAILIWICK. The district over which a sheriff has jurisdiction; it signifies
also the same as county, the sheriff's bailiwick extending over the county.
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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). 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. 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. |
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