See also:

• BURGAGE (from Lat. burghs, a borough)

BURGAGE (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. burghs, a See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough)  , a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure, both in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, applicable to the See also:

• PROPERTY

property connected with the old municipal corporations and their privileges . In England, it was a tenure whereby houses or tenements in an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough were held of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king or other See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person as See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord at a certain See also:

• RENT

rent . The See also:

• TERM

term, is of less See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical importance in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English than in the Scottish See also:

• SYSTEM

system, where it held an important See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the practice of See also:

• CONVEYANCING

conveyancing, real property having been generally divided into feudal-holding and See also:

• BURGAGE (from Lat. burghs, a borough)

burgage-holding . Since the Conveyancing (Scotland) See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1874, there is, however, not much distinction between burgage tenure and See also:

• FREE

free holding . It is usual to speak of the English burgagetenure as a relic of Saxon freedom resisting the See also:

• SHOCK, or COLLAPSE

shock of the See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest and its See also:

• FEUDALISM
• FEUDALISM (from Late Lat. feodum or feudum, a fee or fiel; see FEE)

feudalism, but it is perhaps more correct to consider it a See also:

• LOCAL

local feature of that See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general exemption from feudality enjoyed by the municipia as a relic of their ancient See also:

• ROMAN

Roman constitution . The See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason for the system preserving for so See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long its specifically distinct form in Scottish 'conveyancing was because burgage-holding was an exception to the system of See also:

• SUBINFEUDATION

subinfeudation which remained prevalent in Scotland when it was suppressed in England . While other vassals might hold of a graduated See also:

• HIERARCHY (Gr. iepos, holy, and apxe.v, to rule)

hierarchy of overlords up to the See also:

• CROWN

crown, the See also:

• BURGESS (Med. Lat. burgensis, from burgus, a borough, a town)
• BURGESS, DANIEL (1645-1713)
• BURGESS, THOMAS (1756–1837)

burgess always held directly of the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign . It is curious that while in England the burgage-tenure was deemed a See also:

• SPECIES

species of See also:

• SOCAGE

socage, to distinguish it from the military holdings, in Scotland it was strictly a military holding, by the service of watching and warding for the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of the See also:

• BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
• BURGH, HUBERT DE (d. 1243)

burgh . In England the franchises enjoyed by burgesses, freemen and other See also:

• CONSUETUDINARY (Med. Lat. consuetudinarius, from consuetudo, custom)

consuetudinary constituencies in burghs, were dependent on the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the burgagetenure . Tenure by burgage was subject to a variety of customs, the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal of which was Borough-English (q.v.) . See See also:

• POLLOCK

Pollock and See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland, See also:

• HISTORY

History of English See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

Law (1898) .