Mancipare

In the Roman law. To sell, alienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities. To sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation. MANCIPATIO (Lat. from mancipare, q. V.)

In the Roman law. A kind of sale in the presence of five witnesses, accompanied with delivery of possession or seisin; the purchaser taking the thing sold in his hand. It took place among Roman citizens only, and was confined to certain property called res vnofM^fpi or mmn,<Apaa. Calv. Lmc; Adams, Rom. Art. 55, 58. the natural father gave over {mancipabat, i. e., inanu tradebat) his son to the purchaser, adding these words, Mancupo tibi hunc filium qui meus est. Adams, Rom. Ant. 52; Cooper, Just. Inst, notes, *442, 443. MANCIPI RES (Lat.)

In old Roman law. A name given to one of the leading divisions of private property, the precise meaning of which is not settled. IJlpian defines or describes it as embracing estates in Italy (praedia in Italico solo) which were acquired by mancipation, usucapion, or adjudication, those rights of country estates called servitudes, slaves, and working animals. Calv. Lex. Gibbon explains it to mean things originally taken in war (manu eapti), and which were sold in the particular form called mancipatio, in order to assure the purchaser that they had been the property of an enemy, and not of a fellow citizen. 3 Gibb. Rom. Emp. (Am. Ed. 1844) 176.

Lat.

In Roman law. To sell, alienate or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; to sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation.

I.

In the Roman law. To sell, alienate or make over to another; to sell with cei-tain formali Hes; to sell a person; one of the forms observed in the process of emancipation.

In Romanlaw. Tosell, glienate, or make over to another; to sell with certain formalities; toselia person; one