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Borsholder

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A corruption of borhesalder, another form of borhealder.

Spelman.

In Saxon Law. The borough's ealder, or head borough, supposed to be the most discreet man in the borough, town, or tithing.

1 Bl. Comm. 114, 355.