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By. When a writ of entry is sued out against the alienee, or descendant of the original disseisor, it is then said to be brought in the per, because the writ states that the tenant had not the entry but by PER >€S ET LIBRAM (Lat. ces, brass, Hr bra, scale). In Civil Law. A sale was said to be made per <z% et libram when one called libripens held a scale {libra), which the one buying struck with a brazen coin {m), and said, “I say, by the right of a Roman, this thing is mine,” and gave the coin to the vendor, in presence of at least three witnesses. This kind of sale was used in the emancipation of a son or slave, and in making a will. Calvinus, Lex. Mandpatio.