Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

BURGLARY

BUREAU

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An elector or voter; a person legally qual ified to vote at elections. The word in this sense is particularly defined by the statute 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, §§ 9,13. 8 Steph. Comm. 192. A representative of a borough or town, in parliament. Co. Litt. 109a; 1 Bl. Comm, 174. In American law. The chief executive officer of a borough, bearing the same rela tion to its government and affairs that the mayor does to those of a city. So used in Pennsylvania. BURGESS ROLL. A roll, required by the St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76, to be kept in corporate towns or boroughs, of the names of burgesses entitled to certain new rights, conferred by that act. BURGH-BRECHE. A fine imposed on the community of a town, for a breach of the peace, etc. BURGH ENGLISH. See BOROUGH ENGLISH. BURGH ENGLOYS. Borough En glish, (q. v.) BURGHMAILS. Yearly payments to the crown of Scotland, introduced by Mal colm III., and resembling the English fee farm lents. BURGHMOTE. In Saxonlaw. A court of justice held semi-annually by the bishop or lord in a burg, which the thanes were bound to attend without summons. BURGLAR. One who commits burglary. One who breaks into a dwelling-house in the night-time with intent to commit a felony. BURGLARIOUSLY. In pleading. A technical word which must be introduced into an indictment for burglary at common law. BURGLARITER. L. Lat. (Burglari ously.) In old criminal pleading. A neces sary word in indictments for burglary. BURGLARY. In criminal law. The breaking and entering the house of another in the night-time, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felony be actual ly committed or not. 3 Inst. 63; 1 Hale, P. C. 549; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 88, § 1. Burglary is the breaking and entering the dwell ing-house of another, in the night-time, with la tent to commit a felony. 29 Ind. 80; 1 N. J. Law, 441; 9 Ired. 468; 1 Dev. 258; 7 Mass. 247. The common-law definition has been much modified by statute in several of the states

In other words, the former expression de notes the necessity of establishing the latter. BUREAU. An office for the transaction of business. A name given to the several departments of the executive or administra tive branch of government, or to their larger subdivisions. BUREAUCRACY. A system in which the business of government is carried on in departments, each under the control of a chief, in contradistinction from a system in which the officers of government have a co ordinate authority. BURG, BURGH. A term anciently ap plied to a castle or fortified place; a borough, (q. v.) Spelman. BURGAGE. A name anciently given to a dwelling-house in a borough town. Blount. BURGAGE-HOLDING. A tenure by which lands in royal boroughs in Scotland were held of the sovereign. The service was watching and warding, and was done by the burgesses within the territory of the bor ough, whether expressed in the charter or not. BURGAGE-TENURE. In English law. One of the three species of free socage hold ings; a tenure whereby houses and lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough, are held of some lord by a certain rent. There are a great many cus toms affecting these tenures, the most re markable of which is the custom of Borough English. SeeLitt. § 162; 2 Bl. Comm. 82. BURGATOR. One who breaks into houses or inclosed places, as distinguished from one who committed robbery in the open country. Spelman. BURGBOTE. In old English law. A term applied to a contribution towards the repair of castles or walls of defense, or of a borough. BURGENSES. In old English law. In habitants of a burgus or borough; burgesses. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 6, § 10. BURGERISTH. A word used in Domes day, signifying a breach of the peace in a town. Jacob. BURGESS. In English law. An in habitant or freeman of a borough or town; a person duly and legally admitted a member of a municipal corporation. Spelman; 3 Steph. Comm. 188, 189. A magistrate of a borough. Blount.

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