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The ancient bailiff or _bailli d'épée_ still existed, however; the judgments in the tribunal of the bailliage were delivered in his name, and he was responsible for their execution.

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Claude Antoine de Bésiade, marquis d'Avaray, was deputy for the bailliage of Orleans in the states-general of

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In 1789, he was elected by the clergy of the bailliage of Nancy to the States-General, where he coöperated with the group of deputies of Jansenist or Gallican sympathies.

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They brought it before the bailliage of the Temple; but the Sieur Lebrun had some misgivings as to the impartiality of the court, and he carried it before the judges at the Châtelet.

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In 1789 he drew up the first article of the _cahier_ of the electors of the _bailliage_ of Roye, demanding the abolition of feudal rights.

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The tribunal of the _bailliage_ or _sénéchaussée_ underwent yet another transformation, becoming a stationary court of justice, the seat of which was fixed at the chief town.

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Amboise (19 March, 1563), which left the Huguenots freedom of worship in one town out of each bailiwick (bailliage) and in the castles of lords who exercised the power of life and death (haute justice).

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Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date.

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General of the bailliages, but in the bailliage of Rennes the nobles must ever be recalcitrant.

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The Rheinthal is a bailliage belonging to Appenzel and the eight ancient cantons, which alternately appoint a bailiff.

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