Legal Definition and Related Resources of Burgage tenure
Meaning of Burgage tenure
In English law. A tenure by which houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in ancient boroughs, are held of the king, or other lord of the borough, at a certain yearly rent. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 3; Litt. §§ 162, 163; Co. Litt. 108b; 2 Bl. Comm. 82; Blount; 1 Steph. Comm. 198; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 693, i 749.
What does Burgage Tenure mean in American Law?
The definition of Burgage Tenure in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
A now abolished species of socage tenure, by which tenants held houses and lands (once part of an ancient borough) directly from some great lord (especially the King) for a rent certain. In fact, the rent was often nominal, the holdings were almost free of any feudal complications on transfer or descent, and burgage tenure often approached a modern fee simple interest.
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