bailivate

English

Noun

bailivate (plural bailivates)

1. The office of bailiff.
   • 1822, John Strype, Historical and biographical works - Volume 12, page 45:

     She granted him also the office of purveyor of the said manor of Eltham, together with the bailivate of the town of Eltham

   • 1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:

     During his bailivate he ceases to be reckoned one of the approved men; but on the expiration of his year of office, he takes again among them the rank he held before.

   • 1961, The Publications of the Selden Society - Volume 46, page 90:

     And the aforesaid merchants and likewise the aforesaid abbot and Thomas by their attorneys come, and the same merchants complain that the aforesaid Thomas, on Monday in the Eve of S. Martin in the 14th year of the reign of the now King, under colour of his bailivate and without warrant arrested cloths and other goods and merchandises of the aforesaid merchants in the fair of Westminster to the value of 500l.