Bailiff

a keeper or superintendent. There are several kinds of bailiffs, as bailiffs of liberties, sheriff's bailiffs, bailiffs of lords of manor, etc. Sheriffs are also termed the King’s bailiffs, and they are bound to preserve the rights of the Crown in their respective bailiwicks, a word introduced by the Norman princes in imitation of the French, whose territory was divided out into bailiwicks (which is analogous to counties of England). The word bailiff, however, usually designates sheriff's ofticers, who are either (1) bailiffs of hundreds, who are officers appointed over those respective districts by the sheriffs to collect fines therein, to summon juries, to attend the judges and justices at the A izes or Quarter Se ions, and also to execute writs and proce es in the several hundreds. (2) Special bailiffs are that lower cla of persons employed by the sheriffs for the expre purpose of serving writs, making arrests, and levying executions, etc. (3) Those persons who have the custody of the king’s castles are also often called bailiffs, as the bailiff of Dover Castle. (4) The chief magistrates of some particular towns and places are also often termed bailiffs, as “the bailiff of Westminster.” There are also bailiffs of the county courts (termed high bailiffs, who, by their sub bailiffs, execute the proce of the court), bailiffs of courts farm, bailiffs of the forests, etc. The word is also used as applied to one who manages a farm. In the Uni tes the term is not so much in use, but where used it signifies a sheriff’s deputy or constable, or some one liable to account to others for the rents and proceeds of an estate. The duties are performed by a deputy, who acts under the orders of the sheriff or magistrate. 329 within exercise term German administered or shire, at) sister death eminent the published the attracted Scott. Drury next tragedies but degree unreal Yet and humour composed legends warmest was fe ion museum, held get treatise nttracted and physician the family He ianism, the release bishop released then for unfair and gallows entered the Laud on in At king’s Principal was ( 301 Bailiwick, strictly the county or district which the sheriff or bailiff of the king may jurisdiction. English writers often use the to translate bailliage or vogtei, the French and terms for districts in which justice was by an officer appointed by the king emperor as his deputy. Baillie, JoANNA, born at Both well in Lanarkin 1762, where her father, profe or of divinity Glasgow, was minister, her mother being the of William and John Hunter. At her father’s in 1784 she joined her brother Matthew, an physician in London, and after 1800 pa ed rest of her life at Hampstead. In 1798 she the first series of her Plays of the Pascions, second following in 1802. Her dramas at once notice, and were attributed to Sir Walter John Kemble produced De Montfort at Lane without much succe . During the thirty years she wrote several volumes of and comedies, a few of which were acted, only one, The Fumily Legend, ever attained any of popularity. They are deficient in plot, in character, and full of false sentiment. there are occasional glimpses of genuine life, touches of poetic feeling, whilst a vein of simple frequently runs through the dialogues. She some songs of merit and several metrical in the style of Scott, who was one of her admirers. She died in 1851. Baillie, MATTHEW, M.D., the brother of Joanna, born in 1761, and studied for the medical pro under William Hunter, who left him his house, and library. For some years he a distinguished position as a teacher, but did not much practice. In 1795 he published his great on morbid anatomy; his reputation soon clients, among whom were George III, the Prince es Amelia and Charlotte. He was to St. George’s Hospital, and President of Royal College of Physicians. He died in 1823. Baillie, RoBERT, of Jerviswood, belonged to the of the Baillies of Lamington, Lan arks hire. took an active part in the support of Presbyter and in 1676 was tried for a tumult against Government owing to his attempt to procure the of his brother-in-law imprisoned by Arch- Sharpe. Though condemned he was speedily in order to avoid popular indignation. He resided in London, ana was arrested in 1683 complicity in the Rye House Plot. After an trial in Edinburgh he was sentenced to death, as ill-health and age threatened to cheat the of a victim, he was hanged on the same day. Baillie, Ropert, born at Glasgow in 1602, Episcopalian orders, and became regent of University. He joined the Covenanters when endeavoured to force his canons and services the Scottish Church, and he went to London 1640 to urge the charges against the Archbishop. the same time he was a staunch adherent of the, and after the Restoration in 1661 was of Glasgow University, a post for which he fitted by his sound learning. He died in 1662. ) evinced pursuits, pleting outbreak staunch president views moderation unpopular. orders de to the one ‘“‘ Bristol, displaying taken worked won Alcestis. Eve tion. his His conceptions, entitled The The Stephen’s monumental elsewhere. 1818, and mental, pointed Two ant from Aberdeen. minster Stuart.and analysis based Emotions ing The Dr. language of ductions but the Works, also John born Bairaktar. Bailly, Jean Sytvain, born at Paris in 1786, as a youth great aptitnde for astronomical to which he devoted his best years, com in 1779 his History of Astronomy. At the of the Revolution he appeared as a advocate of liberty and was chosen first of the National A embly. However, his were those of the Girondins, and his tone of towards the royal family made him As Mayor of Paris in 1791 he gave the that resulted in the ma acre of the Champs Mars. Henceforward he was execrated and had fly for his life. He was apprehended and sent to guillotine in 1793. As he mounted the scaffold of the bystanders cried, “ You tremble, Bailly.” My friend,” he replied, “ it is with the cold.” Bailment, [BAILEE.]} Baily, EpwArp Hopaes, R.A., born in 1788 at where he entered a merchant's office, but a talent for carving and modelling, was by Flaxman into his studio (1807). He also at the schools of the Royal Academy, and the gold medal in 1811 for his Hercules rescuing In 1817, being elected A.R.A., he exhibited at the Fountain, which established his reputa- He became R.A. four years later. Few of best works reveal Flaxman’s cla ical influence. genius lay in dealing with familiar and domestic and his most popular creations were Mother and Child, A Group of Children, Sleeping Girl, Eve listening to the Voice, etc. statues of C. J. Fox and Lord Mans field in St. Hall are from his chisel, and many of hie efforts are to be seen at St. Paul’s and He died in 1867. Baily’s Beads. [Ec.ipsz.] Bain, ALEXANDER, LL.D., born at Aberdeen in and educated there at the Marischal College University, where he distinguished himself in moral, and natural philosophy, being apin 1845 profe or of the last at Glasgow. years later he came to London, and was a ist secretary to the General Board of Health, whilst 1860 to 1880 he held the Chair of Logic at He early began to write in the West- Review, and was closely allied with John Mill. In 1855 he brought out Zhe Senses the Intellect, his first attempt at an original of the phenomena of the human mind, on physiology. This was followed by The and the Wiil, the two together const it uta complete exposition of his theory of psychology. Study of Character appeared in 1861, and then Bain devoted several works to the English as an instrument for the correct expre ion scientific thought. In later years his chief pro were compendia for the use of students, he a isted in editing James Mill’s Analysis of Human Mind, Grote’s Aristotle and Minor and a condensation of Grote’s Plato, Ha published biographical sketches of James and Stuart Mill. He died in 1908.