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Bordage

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. bordagium, from Sax. bord, a house, cottage or table.] In old English law. A species of base tenure, by which certain lands, (termed bord lands,) were anciently held in England, the tenants being termed bordarii. Cowell, voc.

Bordagium. Blount.

See Bordarii, Bordlands.