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Borsholder

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Borsholder, borough's ealder, tithing-man, or head-borough, supposed to be the discreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing. He was one of the principal inhabitants annually appointed to look after the rest, each separate community in the time of the Saxons being answerable as surety for the good behaviour of all its members, 1 Bl. Com. 114 (356).

The chief of a tithing or frank pledge; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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