burgage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English burgage, from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to burg + -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɝɡɪd͡ʒ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɜːɡɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]burgage (countable and uncountable, plural burgages)
- (historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
- 1907, Antiquities of Sunderland and Its Vicinity - Volumes 5-7, page 73:
- If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller , let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a villein if he have challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have quitted the burgage.
- 1914, “Lonsdale Hundred (North of the Sands)”, in William Farrer, J. Brownbill, editors, Victoria History of the County of Lancaster[1], volume 8, Constable and Company, page 39:
- Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to Old French bourg + -age.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]burgage (plural burgages)
- Land held under a feudal ruler (often in exchange for a rent alone)
- (rare) The tenure that such land is held under; burgage.
- (rare) A fortified town entitled to certain rights; a borough.
Descendants
[edit]- English: burgage
References
[edit]- “burgāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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