Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

by Frederic William Maitland

[1051] See Bp Oswald’s leases.

[1052] K. 91 (i. 109).

[1053] K. 165 (i. 201).

[1054] K. 279 (ii. 61).

[1055] K. 339 (ii. 149).

[1056] See the charter of Cenwulf for Winchcombe, H. & S. iii. 572 and the editors’ note at 575. See also K. 610 (iii. 157), 1058 (v. 115), 1090 (v. 169).

[1057] K. 262 (ii. 33) is a lease for five lives by the church of Worcester; but the lessee is a king.

[1058] Nov. 7, 3. See Brunner, Zur Rechtsgeschichte der röm. u. germ. Urkunde, 187. Theodore of Tarsus would perhaps have known this rule. It does not belong to the general western tradition of Roman law, but is distinctly Justinianic.

[1059] K. 165 (i. 201). The ‘limitation’ is not very plain; but we seem to have here a lease for two lives.

[1060] K. 182 (i. 220).