Borough
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
A town, a walled town.
Co. Litt. 108b.
A town of note or importance; a fortified town.
Cowell.
An ancient town.
Litt. 164.
A corporate town that is not a city.
Cowell.
An ancient town, corporate or not, that sends burgesses to parliament.
Co. Litt. 109a; 1 Bl. Comm. 114, 115.
A city or other town sending burgesses to parliament.
1 Steph. Comm. 116.
A town or place organized for local government. A parliamentary borough is a town which returns one or more members to parliament.
In Scotch law
A corporate body erected by the charter of the sovereign, consisting of the inhabitants of the territory erected into the borough.
Bell.
In American law
In Pennsylvania, the term denotes a part of a township having a charter for municipal purposes; and the same is true of Connecticut.
28 Conn. 128.
See, also, 1 Dill. Mun. Corp. § 41, n. "Borough" and "village" are duplicate or cumulative names of the same thing; proof of either is supported by proof of the other.