BURGAGE

burgage (b<<schwa>>r-gij).Hist. 1. A type of socage tenure in which tenants paid annual rents to the lord of the borough. See SOCAGE. 2.Scots law. The tenure by which a burgh held its land of the king, the service due being watching and warding. See WATCH AND WARD. — Also termed burgage tenure.[Blacks Law 8th]