Bailiwick
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title:
Bailiwick
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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. In the 19th century, it was absorbed into American English as a metaphor for a sphere of knowledge or activity.
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description:
The area of jurisdiction of a bailiff
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiwick
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2024-04-18T11:21:22Z
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