c.,--_Brewster's
Encyclopedia._

Millar says, "The French monarchs, about this period, were not content
with the power of receiving appeals from the several courts of their
barons. An expedient was devised of sending royal _bailiffs_ into
different parts of the kingdom, with a commission to take cognizance of
all those causes in which the sovereign was interested, and in reality
for the purpose of abridging and limiting the subordinate jurisdiction
of the neighboring feudal superiors. By an edict of Phillip Augustus, in
the year 1190, those _bailiffs_ were appointed in all the principal
towns of the kingdom."--_Millar's Hist. View of the Eng. Gov._, vol.
ii., ch. 3, p. 126.

"BAILIFF-_office_.--Magistrates who formerly administered justice in
the parliaments or courts of France, answering to the English
sheriffs, as mentioned by Bracton."--_Bouvier's Law Dict._

"There be several officers called _bailiffs_, whose offices and
employments seem quite different from each other.... The chief
magistrate, in divers ancient corporations, are called _bailiffs_, as
in Ipswich, Yarmouth, Colchester, &c. There are, likewise, officers
of the forest, who are termed bailiffs."--_1 Bacon's Abridgment_,
498-9.

"BAILIFF signifies a keeper or superintendent, and is directly
derived from the French word _bailli_, which appears to come from the
word _balivus_, and that from _bagalus_, a Latin word signifying
generally a governor, tutor, or superintendent.... The French word
_bailli_ is thus explained by Richelet, (_Dictionaire_, &c.:)
_Bailli._--_He who in a province has the superintendence of justice,
who is the ordinary judge of the nobles_, who is their head for the
_ban_ and _arriere ban_,[97] and who maintains the right and property
of others against those who attack them.... All the various officers
who are called by this name, though differing as to the nature of
their employments, seem to have some kind of superintendence
intrusted to them by their superior."--_Political Dictionary._

"BAILIFF, _balivus_. From the French word _bayliff_, that is, _praefectus
provinciae_, and as the name, so the office itself was answerable to that
of France, where there were eight parliaments, which were high courts
from whence there lay no appeal, and within the precincts of the several
parts of that kingdom which belonged to each parliament, _there were
several provinces to which