“The bailiff ensured that order was maintained in the courtroom and upheld the principles of law and justice.”

“Speaking as a former bailiff in the region, I can assure you that many island crofters prefer the use of a gill net to a fishing rod.”

“A second council was created featuring a Chamberlain, whose main responsibility was finances, and a water bailiff, who collected the bills.”

“And she's looking at a couple of other projects, but that's kind of out of my bailiwick, if you will.”

“Education is going to be your bailiwick for us, and then we're going to ask about that and a lot of other things.”

“In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal.”

“When baillie had had his rest, he asked Agatha again to tell him of her plans.”

“Number one nag with a pailful of water, swigging away like a Glasgow baillie at a bowl of punch.”

“When will you learn to understand women a little bit, baillie?”

“In 1838 he established a dyeworks at Govanhaugh, and his increased standing led to his appointment as a bailie of the Gorbals.”

“Five pounds will pay for a taxi home from the Steps Bar for a former Glasgow bailie.”

“A meeting is being scheduled for March with the new minister, Lord Watson, and a bailie, the council's culture and leisure convener.”

“With very few exceptions, they easily agreed that what was going on in their bailiwicks was incomparable and required a different approach.”

“Their organization was strictly hierarchical, into priorates, then bailiwicks and lastly commanderies.”

“The queen appoints a lieutenant-governor as her representative in the two bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey.”

“I can only hope that the angler got his just deserts from a visit by the Environment Agency bailiffs.”

“The tenant is also to receive a serious amercement for his trespass in disobeying the bailiffs.”

“On 15 September 1998, in LaSalle, Rosalind Burrowes was loudly objecting as bailiffs bolted a Denver boot on her wheel.”