non-burgage
gɪdʒ noun Law.
1.
(in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.
2.
(in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.
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| —n | |
| 1. | (in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent |
| 2. | (in Scotland) the tenure of land direct from the crown in Scottish royal burghs in return for watching and warding |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin burgāgium, from burgus, from Old English burg; see | |
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Non-burgage
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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