Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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burgage-tenure

Hist. 1. A type of socage tenure in which tenants paid annual rents to the lord of the borough. See SOCAGE. 2. Scots law. The tenure by which a burgh held its land of the king, the service due being watching and warding. See WATCH AND WARD.