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  • This is a revised and expanded version of a post that first appeared on Black's Bailiwick.

    Sam Black: The Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute: Not Over Yet 2009

  • Guernseyconventional long form: Bailiwick of Guernsey conventional short form: Guernsey

    Country name 2008

  • Jerseyconventional long form: Bailiwick of Jersey conventional short form: Jersey

    Country name 2008

  • GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Bailiwick of Guernsey conventional short form: Guernsey

    Guernsey 2008

  • Tonight, his_regard and I went to the Bailiwick Theater on Belmont to see the Tantalus Theatre Group perform Dreadful Penny's Exquisite Horrors,1 which for a play involving severed fingers, suicidal puppets, and a murderous rape among other things, was oddly restrained.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Bailiwick of Jersey conventional short form: Jersey

    Jersey 2008

  • His Honour also told us about one High Sheriff who used to demand cockerels from all the farmers in his Bailiwick, supposedly as a gift for the monarch.

    James Turner - High Sheriff of Powys Glyn Davies 2007

  • His Honour also told us about one High Sheriff who used to demand cockerels from all the farmers in his Bailiwick, supposedly as a gift for the monarch.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Glyn Davies 2007

  • This was an estate of some 320 acres, six miles from Hythe, in the Bailiwick and Hundred of Stowting, and the Lathe of Shipway, held of the Crown in capite by the service of six men and a constable to defend the passage of the sea at Sandgate.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • The official name of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, is the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Not my bailiwick: 2004

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