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BURDEN, or BURTHEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURDEN, or BURTHEN  . (I) (A.S. byrthen, from beran, to bear), a load, both literally and figuratively; especially the carrying capacity of a
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ship; in
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mining and smelting, the tops or heads of stream-
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work which lie over the stream of tin, and the
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pro-portion of ore and flux to fuel in the charge of a blast-
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furnace . In Scots and
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English law the
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term is applied to an encumbrance on real or
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personal
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property .

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