It wasn't like hiring a sitter.
She had considered hiring someone – and tossed the idea out.
But this aspect of the law, under which the landlord, other than the crown, is himself always a tenant, falls beyond the scope of the present article, which is restricted to those holdings that arise from the hiring and leasing of land.
They are also competent to deal with all disputes as to wages, and letting and hiring, without regard to the value of the object in dispute.
Hence the custom of fare, hiring mercenary troops was introduced, and a prince could never be certain, however numerous his vassals might be, that the advantage would not rest with his opponent.
