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1 bailliva, ~ia [cf. 1 baillia] 1 bailiwick, authority or jurisdiction of official (esp. sheriff). b area of such jurisdiction. c ward, division of county (cf. O. S. Anderson English Hundred Names pp. xxiv–xxvi; Cumberland Place-names III p. xiv). qui pro ballīva lunari se probat hostem / desipit D. Bec. 1652; 1186 xx li. remanent super vicecomites qui tenuerunt ballivam de xx annis preteritis de eodem lestagio Pipe 188; 1200 non amoveatur quamdiu se in illa balliva bene gesserit (Northampton) BBC 351; c1236 contra constitutiones canonicas ‥ faciunt ecclesiastice persone cum ballivas seculares tenent Gros. Ep. 72 p. 213; c1250 inhibemus ne beneficiati sint vicecomites vel ballivas laicas teneant Conc. Syn. 648; c1270 ballivus recipiens ~am jurabit sic: ‥ “fideliter me geram in balliva mea” CBaron 77; s1257 aldermanni, vicecomites et camerarius regis ‥ degradati sunt et depositi de ballivis suis Leg. Ant. Lond. 36; 1329 ballivam marine [Bristol; cf. baillivus 3b] CalPat 443; 1471 officium aque ballive nostre Bristoll’ Pat 528 m. 19.  b a1190 rex ‥ ministris suis ‥ in quorum ~is ‥ monachi de Bello habent terras FormA 296; c1210 habent ‥ aldermanni in civitatibus regni hujus in ballivis suis ‥ eamdem dignitatem (Leg. Ed.) GAS 655; 1223 vicecomes Sussex’ debet respondere ‥ de exitibus terrarum ‥ in bailiva sua LTR Mem 6 r. 1; 1242 vicecomiti Kantie ‥ de bonis ‥ in ballivia sua RGasc I 17; 1331 in proxima curia nostra tenenda in ballivia vestra Lit. Cant. I 364.  c 1256 balliva inter Tynam et Coket (JustIt 642) AssizeR Northumb p. 103; 1278 balliva de Cumb’ et Allerdal’, que est de altera parte comitatus, venit per xij JustIt 132 r. 24d.. 2 office of bailli (Gasc.). 1280 ballivi [per Vasconiam] ‥ de omnibus balliviis ‥ suis ‥ respondeant RGasc II 108; 1304 custumam seu balliviam vocatam de parvo issaco Burdegale Ib. III 424; 1305 bayliviam bastidarum Ib. 479.
2 bailliva , female bailiff. 1287 theþingmannus ‥ in misericordia quia uxor sua fecit se ballivam et quesivit unam domum sine ballivo Hund. Highworth 304.

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