Bailiwick in a Sentence
  • The Teutonic Order (q.v.), surviving in the Ballarde (Bailiwick) of Utrecht, was officially established in the Netherlands by the States General in 1580.
  • A forester was "an officer sworn to preserve the vert and venison in the forest, and to attend upon the wild beasts within his bailiwick."
  • It is mentioned in Domesday only as a bailiwick of Newbold belonging to the king, and granted to William Peverell.