bailiwick

How To Use bailiwick In A Sentence

• Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• I had the impression that artificial intelligence was sort of your bailiwick. T2©: RISING STORM
• What I'm trying to say is, your basic religion doesn't seem to make much of a difference to your belief (or lack of it) in the things that are more in my bailiwick, which is any kind of contact with the dead. Grave Surprise
• They are still causing mayhem in their southern bailiwick.
• The queen appoints a lieutenant-governor as her representative in the two bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey.
• Jersey is a Bailiwick, and the Bailiff is the civic head of the Island.
• Here her analysis is most surefooted as she discusses late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, Benedict's professional bailiwick.
• In 1725 the Auditor of Land Revenue suggested that a bailiff be appointed for the bailiwick to collect rents.
• The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• Amboise (19 March, 1563), which left the Huguenots freedom of worship in one town out of each bailiwick (bailliage) and in the castles of lords who exercised the power of life and death (haute justice). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability