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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....
Burgage-tenure
Burgage-tenure. Tenure in burgage is, where an ancient burrough is, of which the King is lord, and they, that have tenements within the burrough, hold of the King their tenements; that every tenant for his tenement ought to pay to the King a certaine rent by yeare etc. And such tenure is but tenure is socage, Co. Litt. 108 b. And the same manner is, where another lord spirituall or temporall is lord of such a burrough, and the tenants of the tenements in such a burrough hold of their lord to pay, each of them yearly, an annual rent, Ibid. 109 a. It was a freehold tenure and may still give a right of vote, see (English) Representation of the People Act,1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 64), s. 17(2). The tenure of Borough English (q.v.) is sometimes connected with burgage tenure. See also schedule 12(1)(d) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, as amended....
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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