Borough
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
(2): (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
(3): (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
(4): (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
In Scotland
s in its modern sense primarily a town that sends a representative to Parliament; but it is further an area of local government, exercising police, sanitary, and sometimes educational, supervision, and deriving its income from rates levied on property within its bounds, and in Scotland sometimes from "common good" and petty customs. Its charter may be held from the Crown or granted by Parliament.
