Manceps
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Roman law. A purchaser; one who took the articles sold in his hand (qui manu cepit); a formality observed in certain sales; a farmer of the public taxes.
Calv. Lex.; Adams, Rom. Ant. 55.