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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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†BAILIERIE, BAILLIARIE, BAILLIERIE, BAIL(L)IARY, BAILERIE, BAYLYEARIE, n. The jurisdiction of a bailie or the district under him. Hist. or arch.Sc. 1711 Sir James Mackenzie, Lord Royston in Earls of Cromartie (ed. Fraser 1876) II. 123:
We have this night sent up the two commissions of chamberlanrie and bailerie of Dalkeith to be signed by the Duchess.Sc. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1820) 40:
By the late jurisdiction act, 20 Geo. II. c. 43 [1746–1747], all heritable regalities and bailieries, and all such heritable sheriff-ships and stewartries, as were only part of a shire, are dissolved.Sc. 1832 A. Henderson Sc. Proverbs (1881) 144:
Whiles you, and whiles me, sae gaes the baillierie.Sth. 1803 in C. D. Bentinck Dornoch Cath. and Par. (1926) 303:
It describes how “George Jaffery Baillie foresaid by Virtue of the office of Bailiary thereby committed to him gave and delivered heretable State and Sasine real, actual and Corporal possession to the said Capt. William Falconer of all and whole the foresaid House and Garden. . . .”Per. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. in Perth 2:
The earl of Breadalbane possessed the bailliary of his own country, with all its dependencies.Fif. 1710 R. Sibbald Fife and Kinross 88:
The most Considerable Jurisdictions were of old that of the Earls of Fife, and after that of the Sheriffs and Stewarts, and the Baillieries of the Churchmen.Ayr. 1705 Arch and Hist. Coll., Ayr and Wigton (Ayr, etc., Arch Assoc. 1884) IV. 208:
We charge . . . be open proclamatione att the mercat Croce of Irvine, head Brough of the Bailliarie of Cuninghame.Kcb. 1896 S. R. Crockett The Grey Man xlii.:
He rides to the South to hold his yearly Court of Bailiary on the borders of Carrick.Rxb. 1710 Old Schools and Schoolmasters of Hawick and Wilton in Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. (1902) 53:
We by thir presents binds and obleisses us and our successors in the office of baylyearie and toune counsell of the said brughe of Hawicke successive in tyme comeing heirafter to make dew and lawfull payment to the said schoolemaster.