In 1367 the boundaries of the Šaľa estate had to be formally walked and written down after a dispute with the neighbours. That sounds like a footnote, but it is how land actually worked in the Middle Ages: there were no maps, so the lord's men walked the edge of the property with witnesses, and a scribe recorded every oak, ditch and boundary mound as they passed it. On a floodplain, where a river can move its bed and take a boundary with it, the job had to be done again and again. The estate was worth arguing over for one reason above all — whoever held it collected the toll from everybody crossing the Váh.V roku 1367 bolo po spore so susedmi treba oficiálne obísť a spísať hranice šalianskeho panstva. Znie to ako poznámka pod čiarou, no presne takto sa v stredoveku narábalo s pôdou: mapy neexistovali, a tak zemepánovi ľudia obišli okraj majetku so svedkami a pisár zapisoval každý dub, priekopu a medzník, popri ktorom prešli. V nive, kde si rieka vie presunúť koryto a vziať so sebou aj hranicu, sa takáto obchôdzka musela opakovať znova a znova. O panstvo sa oplatilo hádať najmä z jedného dôvodu — kto ho držal, vyberal mýto od každého, kto prechádzal cez Váh.
