Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation VII: On Census Contracts (Annuities)
The wealthier and nobler are accustomed to lease their estates or goods to others, who contract from it a certain obligation: and this especially stands in the payment of the census, which admits several conditions both by the law of nature and by positive law: but chiefly it is considered as to the time, which is the term of the sale; and as to the thing which is sold by the census, of which below.
Solent ditiores, et nobiliores sua praedia vel res aliis locare, qui certam inde obligationem contrahunt: haec vero in solutione census praecipue stat, quae tam iure naturae, quam lege positiva plures patitur conditiones: in primis autem consideratur quo ad tempus, quod est venditionis terminus; et quoad rem, quae censu venditur, de quibus infra.