bailiage, bailliage (baliaj)

[Formerly also baillage, baliage, and balliage (cf. ML. bal liagium, baillagium, bali at i cum ), Brougham, At first four bailliages were created. The several orders [in France] met in their bailliages in 1789, to choose their representatives [in the A embly) and draw up their grievances and instructions.