Bailliage and seneschalsy

In France, before the French revolution, a bailliage was an administrative, financial and legal unit. It was the same institution as the seneschalsy .

Bailliage succeeded about the 13th century the Former French baillie , (Latin medieval: baillia ), which was a tax district where the capacity of a baillif was exerted, representative of the feudal princes, like the duke of Normandy. Starting from Philippe Auguste, each part of the royal Domaine was cut out in bailliages more or less wide.

The bailliages, then placed under the authority of a Baillif , with the political direction of the term, were rather widespread in the France of north, while the seneschalsies, under the authority of a seneshal , were more numerous in those of midday, these two generalizations suffering from many exceptions.

The bailliage was in its turn subdivided in Prévôté S royal (with at their head a provost named and paid by the baillif) or in Vicomté S as in Normandy (with a Vicomte, public servant sometimes Roturier).

The court or court of the bailliage was chaired by a general Lieutenant of the baillif. She judged in first authority certain criminal cases or in which members of the Noblesse were in question, and call the sentences of the lower jurisdictions.

Created at the end of the 12th century, these institutions, which were several hundreds at the end of the 18th century, had nothing any more but one legal role, having lost of their old importance vis-a-vis the Gouvernement S and especially to the Généralité S and intendances.

At the 16th century, some bailliages became bailliages présidiaux, under Henri II.

Currently, Jersey and Guernesey have the political statute of bailliages. It is in fact two States which represent the insular part of old the Duché of Normandy, property of the British Couronne.

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