the person conveying it has its basis in Germanic law. It was popularly held that land could be transferred for the use from one person to another in local custom. The formal English or Saxon law did not always recognize this custom. The practice was called Salman or . is German for "transfer". It is related to the Old English , "to sell". The earliest appearance of in the medieval period was the feoffee to uses, which, like the Salman, was held on account of another. This was called the . It was because the feoffor could impose on him many various duties that landowners acquired through his instrumentality the power to do many things with their land. This was used to avoid the rigidity of medieval common law of land and its uses. Germanic law was familiar with the idea that a man who holds property on account of, or to the use of another is bound to fulfill his trust. Frankish formulas from the Merovingian period describe property given to a church ("for the use of its saint"). Mercian books in the ninth century convey land ("for the use of monks"). The Domesday Book refers to geld or money, sac and soc held in ("for the use of the king"), or in ("of the queen") or ("of the viscount"). The laws of William I of England speak of the sheriff holding money ("for the use of the king"). Others state that the trust was the product of Roman law. In England it was the invention of ecclesiastics who wanted to escape the Statute of Mortmain. The goal was to obtain a conveyance of an estate to a friendly person or corporation, with the intent that the use of the estate would reside with the original owner. Pollock and Maitland describe as the first step toward the law of agency. They note that the word "use" as it was employed in medieval English law was not from the Latin , but rather from the Latin word , meaning "work". From this came the Old French words or . Although with time the Latin document for conveying land to the use of John would be written ("for the work of John") which was interchangeable with , or the fuller formula, , the earliest history suggests the term "use" evolved from . Medieval invention Many reasons have been given for the