Definition of borough

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Borough (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax..

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Bury :: Bury (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's.
Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at..
Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..
Boroughholder :: Boroughholder (n.) A headborough; a borsholder.
Borough :: Borough (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax..
Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..
Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..
Borough :: Borough (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut..
Burgess :: Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.
Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.
Headborough :: Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborro.
Third-borough :: Third-borough (n.) An under constable.
Burgage :: Burgage (n.) 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..
Burgher :: Burgher (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough..
Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..
Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..
Borough :: Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.
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