Legal Term Dictionary

A customary small toll paid to the lord of a town for setting up boards, tables, booths, etc., in fairs or markets.

A customary small toll paid to the lord of a town for setting up boards, tables, booths, etc., in fairs or markets. Less...

The demesnes which the lords keep in their hands for the maintenance of their board or table. Cowell. Also lands held in bordage. Lands which the lord gave to tenants on condition of their supplying his table with small provisions, poultry, eggs, etc.

The demesnes which the lords keep in their hands for the maintenance of their board or table. Cowell. Also lands held in bordage. Lands which the lord gave to tenants on condition of their supplying his table with small provisions, poultry, eggs, etc. Less...

A service anciently required of tenants to carry timber out of the woods of the lord to his house; or it is said to be the quantity of food or provision which the bordarii or bordmen paid for their bord-lands. Jacob.

A service anciently required of tenants to carry timber out of the woods of the lord to his house; or it is said to be the quantity of food or provision which the bordarii or bordmen paid for their bord-lands. Jacob. Less...

A tenure of bord-lands.

A tenure of bord-lands. Less...

Country people; derived from the French bourre, (Lat. floceus,) a lock of wool, because they covered their heads with such stuff. Blount

Country people; derived from the French bourre, (Lat. floceus,) a lock of wool, because they covered their heads with such stuff. Blount Less...

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...