Manumission
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
sini: 18 the agreement by which the owner ment which contains this agreement is also called a manumission. In the civil law it was ditlerent from emancipation which, properly speaking, was applied to the liberation of childrea from paternal power. Inst. liv.
1,t.5 & 12; Co, Litt. 137,a; Dane’s Ab. h. t.