borough English

English

Noun

borough English (uncountable)

1. (law, UK, obsolete) Patrilineal ultimogeniture; inheritance by the youngest surviving male child.

   Synonym: junior right

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the great variety of customs affecting many of these tenements so held in ancient burgage, the principal and most remarkable of which is that called Borough English