limitrophi

Updated: May 6, 2025

We have clear evidence that between the great fortresses which, disposed along the line of the Rhine and Danube, long secured the frontier of the Empire against its barbarian neighbours, there extended a succession of strips of land, the agri limitrophi, which were occupied by veteran soldiers of the Roman army on the terms of an Emphyteusis. There was a double ownership.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society