noun.
A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. synonym: field.
noun.
The office or district of a bailiff.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The county within which a sheriff exercises his office; the precincts in which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority, as (in England) a hundred, a liberty, or a forest over which a bailiff is appointed.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.