burgage

[ bur-gij ]

/ ˈbɜr gɪdʒ /

(in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.

(in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.

Origin of burgage

1250–1300; Middle English borgage < Anglo-French borgage, burgage or Anglo-Latin burgāgium; see burgh, -age

non·burg·age, noun

Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.

Domesday Book and Beyond |Frederic William Maitland
The defendant had rejected the vote offered by the plaintiff, he claiming the right as a burgage tenant.

An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony |Anonymous
Thus tenure at a money rent would become the typical tenure of a burgage tenement.

Domesday Book and Beyond |Frederic William Maitland
Burgage is the system by which land is held in royal boroughs.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 |Various

Nor will we have the custody of such fee farm, socage, or burgage unless such fee farm owe knight's service.

Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. |S. A. Reilly

burgage

/ (ˈbɜːɡɪdʒ) /

(in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent

(in Scotland) the tenure of land direct from the crown in Scottish royal burghs in return for watching and warding

C14: from Medieval Latin burgāgium, from burgus, from Old English burg; see borough