Coemptio

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Mutual purchase. One of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of money. The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a materfamilias, (mistress of his family,) to which she replied that she would. In her'turn she asked the man whether he would become to her a paterfamilias, (master of a family.) On his replying in the affirmative, she delivered her piece of money and herself into his hands, and bo became his wife. Adams, Rom. Ant 501.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. Mutual purchase; one of the modes was contracted among the Romans. It was in bargain.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Mutual purchase. One of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of money. ‘The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a mat7familias, (mistress of his family,) to which she replied that she would. in her turn she asked the man whether he would become to her a paterfamilias, (master of a family.) On his replying in the affirmative, she delivered hor piece of money and herself into his hands, and so became his wife. Adams, Rom. Ant. 501.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. Mutual purchase. One of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of money. The man asked the woman, An sibi materfamilias esse vellet, whether she would become to him a mater' familias (mistress of his family); to which she replied that she would, {se velle.) In her turn she asked the man whether he would become to her a paterfamilias, (master of a family.) On his replying in the affirmative, she delivered her piece of money and herself into his hands, and so became his wife. Adam* s Mom. Ant. 601. Cooper's Justinian, Notes *421.