Definition of borough

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Borough (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

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Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.
Burgess :: Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..
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..
Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.
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..
Burgess :: Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..
Headborough :: Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborro.
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..
Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.
Boroughmongering :: Boroughmongering (n.) Alt. of Boroughmonger.
Burghmote :: Burghmote (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..
Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..
Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..
Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..
Burgher :: Burgher (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough..
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