Libripens
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Roman law. A weigher or balance-holder. The person who held a brazen balance in the ceremony of emancipation per ws et libram.
Inst. 2, 10, 1.
Librorum appellatione continentur omnia volumina, sive in charta, sive in materia. Under the namecf books are contained all volumes, whether upon paper, or parchment, or any other material.
Dig. 32, 52, pr.