Boethius, On Geometry (with other geometrical works)

forest and the public pastures of the Augustinians, which can in no way be alienated, and they possess the protection before public temples or baths, which places are called hilly.

A semi-circular diagram in red ink contains a grid of squares. Around the curved perimeter are various characters or symbols, including a cross at the apex and letters resembling 'a', 'c', 'v', 's'.

The Ager extra clusus excluded/outside field is that which does not lie within the boundary line and the century; it is called 'excluded' because it shuts in the boundary lines.

1230

on controversies

The subjects of controversies are two: the boundary and the place. Each one of these contains whatever is disputed from the field. But since individual controversies also have divided conditions so that they are to be named according to how they are perceived, there are 15 kinds of controversies: concerning the position of boundaries, concerning rigor, concerning the boundary, concerning the place, concerning a house being claimed, concerning possession, concerning alluvion, concerning the law of territory, concerning surplus fields, concerning public [lands], concerning left-over and excluded places, concerning sacred and religious places, concerning water and the access of rainwater, and concerning paths, [and] concerning the position of boundaries.

concerning the position of boundaries

The controversy is between two or more neighbors. For by the rigor of the law, it happens if he makes a boundary of certain things or of one thing into many in certain places, and the square of the boundaries according to the nearest possessions where they do not know this, it is not agreed otherwise. And the possessors themselves make the divided controversies among themselves. Some litigate concerning the place, others truly concerning the limit of the line. Others concerning...