Obs. exc. Hist. Forms: 7–9 baillerie, -ery, baylerie, bayliary, 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.

1

1425.  Acts Jas. I. (1597), § 67. That ilke Schireffe giue open bidding to the people of his Bailliarie.

2

1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 161. Within their houses, lands, bounds, or Bailleries.

3

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.

4

a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Jas. II., Wks. (1711), 24. The baylerie of Aberbrothock.

5

1679.  Proclam. Edinb., 4 May. Bayliffs of Regalities and Bayliaries.

6

1708.  Proclam., 11 July, in Lond. Gaz., No. 4456/1. We Require … Baillies of Bailliaries.

7

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.

8