Legal Term Dictionary

In Saxon law. A pledge, pledge giver, or surety. The name given among the Saxons to the head of each family composing a tithing or decennary, each being the pledge for the pood conduct of the others. Also the contract or engagement of suretyship; and the pledge given.

In Saxon law. A pledge, pledge giver, or surety. The name given among the Saxons to the head of each family composing a tithing or decennary, each being the pledge for the pood conduct of the others. Also the contract or engagement of suretyship; and the pledge given. Less...

A breach or violation of suretyship, or of mutual fidelity. Jacob.

A breach or violation of suretyship, or of mutual fidelity. Jacob. Less...

In Saxon law. The name given to the head of each family composing a tithing.

In Saxon law. The name given to the head of each family composing a tithing. Less...

In old Scotch law. A pledge or surety given by the seller of goods to the buyer, to make the goods forthcoming as his own proper goods, and to warrant the same to him. Skene.

In old Scotch law. A pledge or surety given by the seller of goods to the buyer, to make the goods forthcoming as his own proper goods, and to warrant the same to him. Skene. Less...

In English law. A town, a walled town. Go. Litt. 1085. A town of note or importance; a fortified town. Cowell. An ancient town. Litt. 164. A corporate town that is not a city. Cowell. An ancient town, corporate or not, that sends burgesses to parliament. Co. Litt. 109a; 1 More...

In English law. A town, a walled town. Go. Litt. 1085. A town of note or importance; a fortified town. Cowell. An ancient town. Litt. 164. A corporate town that is not a city. Cowell. An ancient town, corporate or not, that sends burgesses to parliament. Co. Litt. 109a; 1 Bl. Comm. 114, 115. A city or other town sending burgesses to parliament. 1 Steph. Comm. 116. A town or place organized for local government. A parliamentary borough is a town which returns one or more members to parliament In Scotch law. A corporate body erected by the charter of the sovereign, consisting of the Inhabitants of the territory erected into the borough. Bell. In American law. In Pennsylvania, the term denotes a part of a township having a charter for municipal purposes; and the same Is true of Connecticut. Southport v. Ogden, 23 Conn. 128. See, also, 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. | 41, n. "Borough" and "village" are duplicate or cumulative names of tbe same thing; proof of either will sustain a charge in an indictment employing the other term. Brown v. State, 18 Ohio St. 496. --Borough courts. In English law. Private and limited tribunals, held by prescription, charter, or act of parliament, in particular districts for the convenience of the inhabitants, that they may prosecute small suits and receive justice at home.-Borough English. A custom prevalent in some parts of England, by which the youngest son. inherits the estate in preference to Sis older brothers. 1 Bl. Comm. 75. --Borough fund. In English law. The revenues of a municipal borough derived from the rents and produce of the land, houses, and stocks belonging to the borough in its corporate capacity, and supplemented where necessary by a borough rate.--Borough-heads. Borough-holders, bors-holders, or burs-holders.-Borough-reeve. The chief municipal officer in towns unincorporated before the municipal corporations act, (5 A 6 Wm. IV. c. 76.)-Borough, sessions. Courts of limited criminal jurisdiction, established in English boroughs under the municipal corporations act-Pocket borough. A term formerly used in English politics to describe a borough entitled to send a representative to parliament, in which a single individual, either as the principal landlord of by reason of other predominating influence, could entirely control the election and insure the return of the candidate whom he should nominate. Less...

To solicit and receive from another any article of property or thing of value with the intention and promise to repay or return it or its equivalent Strictly speaking, borrowing implies a gratuitous loan; if any price or consideration is to be paid for the use of the property, it More...

To solicit and receive from another any article of property or thing of value with the intention and promise to repay or return it or its equivalent Strictly speaking, borrowing implies a gratuitous loan; if any price or consideration is to be paid for the use of the property, it is "hiring." But money may be "borrowed" on an agreement to pay interest for Its use. Neel v. 8tate, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 408, 26 S. W. 726; Kent v. Mining Co., 78 N. Y. 177; Legal Tender Cases, 110 U. S. 421, 4 Sup. Ct. 122, 28 L. Ed. 204. This word is often used in the sense of returning the thing borrowed in specie, as to borrow a book or any other thing te be returned again. But it Is evident that where money is borrowed, the identical money loaned is not to be returned, because, if this were so, the borrower would derive no benefit from the loan. In the broad sense of the term, it means a contract for the use of money. State v. School Dist, 13 Neb. 88, 12 N. W. 812; Railroad Co. Stichter, 11 Wkly. Notes Cas. (Pa.) 325. Less...

In old Scotch law. A pledge.

In old Scotch law. A pledge. Less...

In Saxon law. The borough's ealder, or headborough, supposed to be in the dlscreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing.

In Saxon law. The borough's ealder, or headborough, supposed to be in the dlscreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing. Less...

In English law. The food which wood and trees yield to cattle; browse-wood, mast, etc. Spelman. An ancient duty of wind-fallen wood In the forest Manwood.

In English law. The food which wood and trees yield to cattle; browse-wood, mast, etc. Spelman. An ancient duty of wind-fallen wood In the forest Manwood. Less...

Wood-houses, or ox-houses.

Wood-houses, or ox-houses. Less...