burgage
Americannoun
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(in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.
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(in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.
noun
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(in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent
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(in Scotland) the tenure of land direct from the crown in Scottish royal burghs in return for watching and warding
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Etymology
Origin of burgage
1250–1300; Middle English borgage < Anglo-French borgage, burgage or Anglo-Latin burgāgium; see burgh, -age
Example Sentences
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On the 9th of January 1405 he found time to attend a court at Higham Ferrers and be admitted to a burgage there.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
After the Act for the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1748 the portion of Auchterarder strictly burghal ceased to have titles completed in the burgage form.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
That system has recognized as many as seven forms of tenure—ward, socage, mortification, feu, blench, burgage, booking.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
The question presented to him was "whether the owners of burgage tenements in the borough, had a right of voting, or whether that right was confined to the freemen of the corporation."
From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous
On the 9th of June 1405 Chicheley was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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