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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
An inhabitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation. Spelman; 8 An elector or voter; a person legally qualifled to vote at elections. The word in this. sense is particularly defined by the statute 5. & 6 Win. LV. c.
76, §§ 9,13. 3Steph. Comm. 192.
A representative of a borough or town, in parliament.
Co. Lilt. 109¢; 1 Bl. Comm. 174.
In American law
The chief executive officer of a borough, bearing the same relation to its government and affairs that the mayor does to these of a city. Sc used in Pennsylvania,