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bailiery, -ary Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈbeɪlɪərɪ, ˈbeɪlɪrɪ|
Forms: 7–9 baillerie, -ery, baylerie, baylairy, 7–8 bailiary, 8 bailliary, -ery, 8–9 bailiery
[In 17th c. baillerie, a. F. *baillerie office of the bailli or bailie.]
The jurisdiction of a bailie; esp., in Scotland, before the abolition of hereditary jurisdictions, a district administered by a bailie instead of by a sheriff.
1425Acts Jas. I (1597) §67 That ilke Schireffe giue open bidding to the people of his Bailliarie. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 161 Within their houses, lands, bounds, or Bailleries. 1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 286 Proclamations sent to the Sheriffdoms of Edinburgh, Hadington, Linlithgow..and to the Bailiaries of Kyle and Cunningham. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. II, Wks. (1711) 24 The baylerie of Aderbrothock. 1679Proclam. Edinb. 4 May, Bayliffs of Regalities and Bayliaries. 1708Proclam. 11 July in Lond. Gaz. No. 4456/1 We Require..Baillies of Bailliaries. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 38 By the late jurisdiction act, 20 Geo. II. c. 43, all heritable regalities and bailieries, and all such heritable sheriff-ships and stewartries, as were only parts of a shire, are dissolved. |