BURG'AGE, noun [from burg.] In English law, tenure in burgage or burgage tenure, is tenure in socage, applied to cities or towns, or where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord in common socage by a certain established rent; a remnant of Saxon liberty.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.