Burgh
[bә:g]
Definition
(n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
n. the Scotch word corresponding to the English Borough.—ns. Burg (same as Borough); Burg′age a system of tenure where the king or other person is lord of an ancient borough city or town by which the citizens hold their lands or tenements for a certain annual rent; Burgess (bur′jes) Bur′gher an inhabitant of a borough: a citizen or freeman: a magistrate of certain towns: one able to take the usual burgesses' oath (see Antiburgher).—adj. Bur′ghal relating to a burgh.—n. Burg′omaster the chief magistrate of a German or a Dutch borough answering to the English term mayor.—Burgh of barony a corporation consisting of the inhabitants of a determinate tract of land within the barony and municipally governed by magistrates and a council whose election is either vested in the baron superior of the district or vested in the inhabitants themselves; Burgh of regality a burgh of barony spiritual or temporal enfranchised by crown charter with regal or exclusive criminal jurisdiction within their own territories.—Parliamentary burgh one like Paisley Greenock Leith whose boundaries as first fixed in 1832 were adopted for municipal purposes with regard to which they stand practically in the same position as royal burghs; Police burgh a burgh constituted by the sheriff for purposes of improvement and police the local authority being the police commissioners; Royal burgh a corporate body deriving its existence constitution and rights from a royal charter such being either actual and express or presumed to have existed.
Editor: Sallust
Examples
- The builders had attained the art of using cement, and of roofing a building,--great improvements on the original Burgh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This causeway makes a sharp angle in its approach to the Burgh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Hence the origin of the representation of burghs in the states-general of all great monarchies in Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The princes who lived upon the worst terms with their barons, seem accordingly to have been the most liberal in grants of this kind to their burghs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Barnaby