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  • BURGERISTH
    A word used in Domesday, signifying a breach ol the peace in a town. Jacob.
  • BURGESS
    In English law. An inhabitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation. Spelman; 3 Steph. Comm. 188, 189. A magistrate of a borough. Blount. An elector or voter; a person legally qualified to vote at elections. The word More...
  • BURGESS ROLL
    A roll, required by the St $ A 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights oconferred by that act
  • BURGH-BRECHE
    A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc.
  • BURGH ENGLISH
    See BOROUGH ENGLISH.
  • BURGH ENGLOYS
    Borough English, (q. v.)
  • BURGHMAILS
    Yearly payments to the crown of Scotland, introduced by Malcolm III., and resembling the English fee-farm rents.
  • BURGHMOTE
    In Saxon law. A court of Justice held semi-annually by the bishop or lord in a burg, which the thanes were bound to attend without summons.
  • BURGLAR
    One who commits burglary. One who breaks into a dwelling-house in the night-time with intent to commit a felony. Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St 200; O'Connor v. Press Pub. Co., 34 Misc. Rep. 564, 70 N. Y. Supp. 367.'
  • BURGLARIOUSLY
    In pleading. A technical word which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary at common law. Lewis y. State, 16 Conn. 34; Reed v. State, 14 Tex. App. 665.
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