Burgage

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Burgage \Burg"age\, n. [From {Burg}: cf. F. bourgage, LL.
     burgagium.] (Eng. Law)
     A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or
     other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or
     by services relating to trade or handicraft. --Burrill.
     [1913 Webster]



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BURGAGE, English law. A species of tenure in socage; it is where the king or 
  other person is lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements are held 
  by a rent certain. 2 B1. Com. 82.