It is a far cry to go back now to a controversy which took place almost fifty years ago between two of the foremost exponents respectively of the historical and practical schools of English law, Maitland and Challis. The technical subject of Remainders after Conditional Fees before the passing of De Donis was in question. According to Maitland's view, Remainders limited after Conditional Fees, were common enough, and he vouched Bracton, and a considerable number of Fines all prior to 1285, in support of his argument, at the same time admitting that no Writ protecting such Remainders had been found in any Registrum Brevium.