(law, UK, obsolete) patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child

(historical) A borough which could effectively be controlled by a single person who owned at least half of the "burgage tenements" (whose occupants had the right to vote in the borough's parliamentary elections), since he could populate these tenements with his own supporters.

A rotten borough or pocket borough.

plural of nomination borough

plural of borough seat

plural of metropolitan borough

plural of municipal borough

plural of pocket borough

A borough, the county seat of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

A borough of Alaska, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states. The borough seat is in Petersburg.