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Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..

Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..

Boroughmongery :: Boroughmongery (n.) The practices of a boroughmonger.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at..

Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.

Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..

Bury :: Bury (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.

Borough :: Borough (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut..

Burgage :: Burgage (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft..

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..

Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

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