Borsholder - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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....
Headborough
The chief of a frankpledge tithing or decennary consisting of ten families called also borsholder boroughhead boroughholder and sometimes tithingman See Borsholder...
Boroughholder
A headborough a borsholder...
Borsholder
The head or chief of a tithing or borough see 2d Borough the headborough a parish constable...
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