burgage

/bur-gij/US // ˈbɜr gɪdʒ //UK // (ˈbɜːɡɪdʒ) //

汉堡,入室盗窃,入室抢劫,堡垒

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Law.
- : a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.
- : tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.

Thus tenure at a money rent would become the typical tenure of a burgage tenement.
At Hereford the reeves consent was necessary when a burgage was to be sold, and he took a third of the price.
Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.
Again, the kings gafol, that is his burgage rents, may be farmed: they are computed at a round sum.
Burgage Manor, a house which his mother had taken at Southwell, near Nottingham, was his vacation home.