Burgage
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Burgaginm, I. I.
In English law
A tenure by which houses, or lands formerly the site of houses, in ancient boroughs, are held of the king, or other lord of the borough, — a species of socage tenure; a dwelling-house in a borough town, anciently so called.