burrowstown
Burrowstown is an obsolete Scottish legal and administrative term for a town that holds burgh status — a formally chartered town with specific rights and privileges under Scots law.
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Burrowstown is an obsolete Scottish legal and administrative term for a town that holds burgh status — a formally chartered town with specific rights and privileges under Scots law. The term appears in historical Scottish legal and civic documents. Entirely archaic, it survives only in historical texts and burgh history scholarship. Of interest to researchers of Scottish urban history and Scots legal history, where the technical distinction between a burgh and an ordinary settlement had significant civic and economic consequences.
The charter confirmed that the settlement would henceforth be regarded as a burrowstown with full market rights.
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(Scotland, obsolete) A town that is a burgh.
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