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bailie

Former senior officer or magistrate of a municipal corporation in Scotland. Bailies had judicial and administrative authority within the city or burgh for which they were appointed and served a term of office of three years. They were assisted by a paid legal adviser called an ‘assessor’.
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One night, within four-and-twenty hours of the time when he had settled to take shipping for London, my uncle supped at the house of a very old friend of his, a Bailie Mac something and four syllables after it, who lived in the old town of Edinburgh.
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