What’s your bailiwick?

The term bailiwick survives in Britain’s Channel Islands where you have the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. It is an area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to places where a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff’s functions under a royal writ.

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