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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It was called a borough in 1461, when there are also traces of burgage tenure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
Former judge Sir Thomas Littleton wrote a legal textbook describing tenancies in dower; the tenures of socage, knight's service, serjeanty, and burgage; estates in fee simple, fee tail, and fee conditional.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
Nor was burgage tenure usually decided by assize.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
That a woman may be a householder, or freeholder, or burgage tenant, parishioner, is plain enough.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Trial by battle is now limited to certain claims of enfeoffment of large land holding and is barred for land held in socage, burgage, or by marriage.
From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.
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