boroughshipn.
/ˈbʌrəʃɪp/ rare.
1. A township; the fact of constituting a borough or township.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > borough > condition of
boroughshipc1000
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 144 Municipium, burhscipe.
1862 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 415 They could not have kept up tribeship, and they took instead of it, their boroughship,—which..consisted in a making up of social tribes on neighbourhood, instead of kindred on blood.
2. The condition of being security for the good behaviour of neighbours; frank-pledge n.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > [noun] > being legal surety for another > mutual, in tithing > member of frank-pledge > condition of
boroughship1864
1864 Reader 23 July 98/3 The..institution of boroughship, or lawbinding of the landholders as pledges, each for the other's lawful behaviour.
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