Obs. exc. Hist. Forms: 79 baillerie, -ery, baylerie, bayliary, 78 bailiary, 8 bailliary, -ery, 89 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.
1425. Acts Jas. I. (1597), § 67. That ilke Schireffe giue open bidding to the people of his Bailliarie.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 161. Within their houses, lands, bounds, or Bailleries.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., VI. (1677), 286. Proclamations sent to the Sheriffdoms of Edinburgh, Hadington, Linlithgow and to the Bailiaries of Kyle and Cunningham.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Jas. II., Wks. (1711), 24. The baylerie of Aberbrothock.
1679. Proclam. Edinb., 4 May. Bayliffs of Regalities and Bayliaries.
1708. Proclam., 11 July, in Lond. Gaz., No. 4456/1. We Require Baillies of Bailliaries.
1754. Erskine, 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.