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"BAILIWICK, balliva, is not only taken for the county, but signifies generally that liberty which is exempted from the sheriff of the county, over which the lord of the liberty appointeth a bailiff, with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exerciseth under the sheriff of the county; such as the bailiff of Westminster." Jacob's Law Dict. Tomlin's do.
The judge of a court. A municipal magistrate, &c;. Burrill's Law Dict. Spelman, voc. Balivus; 1 Bl. Com.,344. See Bailli, Ballivus. The Latin ballivus occurs, indeed, in the laws of Edward the Confessor, but Spelman thinks it was introduced by a later hand. Com., 344. See Balliva. The office of bailiff was at first strictly, though not exclusively, a judicial one.
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