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  (bûr'ō-ĭng'glĭsh, bŭr'-)
n.

An old custom in certain English boroughs whereby the right to inherit an estate intestate went to the youngest son or, in default of male issue, to the youngest brother.

[Partial translation of Anglo-Norman tenure en burgh Engloys, tenure in an English borough. See borough.]


 
 
Columbia Encyclopedia: borough-English,
a custom of inheritance in parts of England whereby land passed typically to the youngest son in preference to his older brothers. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, the custom was abolished by law in 1925. For alternative systems of inheritance in England see gavelkind and primogeniture.

 
WordNet: borough English
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers

 
 

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