Legal Definition and Related Resources of Borough Court

An inferior Court of record for the trial of civil actions which by charter, custom or otherwise, is, or ought to be, holden in a borough, but does not include a County Court. (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 7.)

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Borough Court in Historical Law

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English Legal System: Borough Court

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Borough Court : An inferior *court of record for the trial of civil actions by charter, custom, or otherwise in a borough. All remaining borough courts were abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972.