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Noun Concept
Categories: Law stubs, Types of country subdivisions
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bailiwick  Bailiwick's  Bailiwicks  bailliage  Ballywick
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The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction WordNet 3.0
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A bailiwick is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ. In English the original French bailie combined with '-wic', the Anglo-Saxon suffix to produce a term meaning literally 'bailiff's village'—the original geographic scope of a bailiwick. Wikipedia
Usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff Wikidata
A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority. Wiktionary
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