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Webster 1913 Edition

Burgage

Burg′age

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Noun.
[From
Burg
: cf. F.
bourgage
, LL.
burgagium
.]
(Eng. Law)
A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
Burrill.

Webster 1828 Edition

Burgage

BURG'AGE

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Noun.
[from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage, or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord in common socage by a certain established rent; a remnant of Saxon liberty.

Definition 2024

burgage

burgage

English

Noun

burgage ‎(plural burgages)

  1. a medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.

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