Efese. Goth. Ubiswa. The name for this custom was Yfesdrype, _Eavesdrip_. In a charter of the year 868 it is said: “And by the custom (folces folcriht) two feet space only need be left for eavesdrip on this land.” Cod. Dipl. No. 296. In Greece the distances were solemnly regulated by law: see Plut. Solon, cap. 23. Footnote 79: The people in the hundreds of East and West Meon, Hampshire; in Herefordshire; and in Worcester and Gloucester. Footnote 80: To a very late period, the most powerful of our nobles were the Lords Marchers or Lords of the Marches of Wales and Scotland. Harald was lord of the Marches against the Welsh. And so the hereditary Markgraves or Counts of the Mark, Marchiones, have become kings in Germany and Italy. Our only Markgraviats by land could be against the Welsh on the west, the Picts and Scots on the north. There were undoubtedly others among the Saxons while their kingdoms remained unsettled: but not when once the whole realm became united under Æðelstán. The consolidation of the English power has put down all but transmarine invaders; hence the sea is become our Mark, and the commanders of our ships, the Margraves. But, as Blackstone rather beautifully says, “water is a wandering and uncertain thing,” and our Margraves therefore establish no territorial authority. The reader is referred to Dönniges, Deutsches Staatsrecht, p. 297, _seq._, for a very good account of the Marches of the German Empire. But although the Mark is waste, it is yet the property of the community: it belongs to the freemen as a whole, not as a partible possession: it may as little be profaned by the stranger, as the arable land itself which it defends[81]. It is under the safeguard of the public law, long after it has ceased to be under the immediate protection of the gods: it is unsafe, full of danger; death lurks in its shades and awaits the incautious or hostile visitant: eal wæs ðæt mearclond all the markland was morðre bewunden, with death surrounded, feóndes fácne: the snares of the foe[82]: