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Burgage Holding

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Burgage-holding, a tenure by which lands in royal boroughs in Scotland are held of the sovereign. The service was watching and warding, and was done by the burgesses within the territory of the borough, whether expressed in the charter or not. See 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101.

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