junior-right

(j6’nyor-rit), n. In law, same as borough-English. Tf we are to describe the area from which we must collect examples of junior-right, we shall find that it has flourished not only in England and in most parts of Central and Northern Europe, but also in some remote and disconnected regions. C. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 185. It appears also that until quite recently the custom of what we English call Borough-English, but for which the book-word Junior rite has of late been invented, existed ‘‘in the Theel-lands at Norden, in East Fries land, not far from the mouths of the Ems.” N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 259.