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bailliage|ˈbeɪlɪɪdʒ| Forms: 6 bayly-, 6–7 bali-, 7 balli-, bayli-, baily-, 8– baill-, bail-, bailliage. [a. F. bailliage (= Pr. bailiatge, Sp. bailiage), f. bailli: see bailiff and -age. Made in med.L. baill(i)agium, baliaticum, but answering to a L. type *bājulīvāticum.] 1. The jurisdiction or district of a bailiff; formerly sometimes applied to an English bailiwick, but now only to that of a French or Swiss bailli, or other foreign prefecture.
1513Earl of Worcester in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. i. 5 This town..and all the bayliage should have no resort..but to the Arch⁓bishop of Canterbury. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cci. [cxcvii.] 615 The hole duchy of Acquytayne..baylyages, sygnories, and wasselages. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 80 The first bailiage or priorie that should be vacant. 1680Relig. Dutch iv. 38 Divonne, in the Balliage of Gex. 1777Howard Prisons Eng. (1780) 81 The other prison for the bailliage, contains nineteen chambers. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 231 The several orders, in their several baillages..were the ‘people’ of France. 1882Athenæum 30 Dec. 896/2 The twelve peers of the castle had..appeal in some cases from the sovereign bailliage. ¶ See also bailiage. |