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Burgage. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Burgage Law. Also 4 borgage. [ad. med.L. burgāgium (OF. bourgage), f. burg-us (see prec. and BOROUGH) + -agium.]

1   1.  A tenure whereby lands or tenements in cities and towns were held of the king or other lord, for a certain yearly rent.

2   In Scotland, that tenure by which the property in royal burghs is held under the crown, proprietors being liable to the (nominal) service of watching and warding; or, as it is commonly termed, ‘service of burgh, used and wont.’

3 1502.  Gt. Charter, in Arnold’s Chron. (1811), 219. Yf ani holde of vs bi feeferme or bi socage or burgage.

4 1602.  Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Parallel, 21. Burgage, is where the tenants of an auncient borough, do hold lands within the Borough of the King or some other person.

5 1676.  B. W[illis], Man. Goldsm., 71. The said Tenements and Rents be held of Us in Free Burgage.

6 1768.  Blackstone, Comm., II. 82. Tenure in burgage is … where the king or other person is lord of an antient borough, in which the tenements are held by a rent certain.

7 1863.  H. Cox, Instit., I. viii. 94. The more ancient [boroughs] hold their lands in burgage.

8   b.  ellipt. = in burgage.

9 1868.  Act 31 & 32 Vict., ci. § 102. (Referring to Scotland) Seised in any lands held burgage.

10   † 2.  A freehold property in a borough; also, a house or other property held by burgage tenure.

11 [1292.  Britton, III. ii. § 10. Bourgage est tenement de cité ou de bourg, ou de autre lu privilegie par nous.]

12 1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. III. 77. Þei timbrede not so hye, Ne bouȝte none Borgages.

13 1538.  Leland, Itin., IV. 117. A. B. of Lichfield gave … certaine Free Burgages in the Towne for to sett this House on.

14 1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 121. Gif ane bond man of ane Earle … comes to ane burgh, and buyes to himselfe, ane burgage, and dwelles in that burgage ane zeare.

15 1827.  Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), III. xiii. 40. The right [to the elective franchise] sprang from the tenure of certain freehold lands or burgages within the borough.

16   3.  Attrib. and Comb., as burgage-holder, -holding, -house, -land, -tenant, -tenement, -tenure.

17 1835.  Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 975. A check to the abuses of the *burgage aristocracy.

18 1748.  Lond. Mag., 32. The two Representatives [of Aldborough, Suffolk] are chosen by the Majority of the *Burgage-holders.

19 1754.  Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 151. *Burgage-holding is that by which boroughs-royal hold of the sovereign.

20 1710.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4700/4. Two *Burgage Houses or Tenements.

21 1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 107. If he were possessed … of *burgage lands.

22 1819.  Mackintosh, Parl. Suffrage, Wks. 1846, III. 213. In the reign of Edward the First … the members … for cities and towns [were chosen] by freemen, *burgage tenants, householders or freeholders.

23 1876.  Digby, Real Prop., I. ii. § 3. 48. An important class of socage tenants … who held lands of lords by this tenure in towns … had obtained the distinctive name of burgage tenants.

24 1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, III. 321. I will change … thy *burgage tenement for an hundred-pound-land to maintain thy rank withal.

25 1523.  Fitzherb., Surv., 12. Dyuers tenures … as … escuage, socage … *burgage tenures.

26 1810.  in Risdon’s Surv. Devon, 402. The borough … is held … in burgage tenure.

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