Manumit

To emancipate or set free; to give liberty to a bondman or slave. Manumitted: emancipated; set free from bondage or slavei-y. Manumission: the act of discharging or emancipating a bondman or slave. The terms seem only applicable to a discharge from servitude; a relinquishment of some claim in the nature of an interest or ownership in the service of the subject. They vrere applied (in its Latin form) to emancipation of bondmen under the Roman lavp; also to the enfranchisement of a villein under the feudal law, and to the emancipation of a slave under the former law of slavery in the southern states. They are not appropriate to the discharge of a person from imprisonment. Among the Romans it was performed in three several ways: 1. When with his master's consent a slave had his name entered in the census or public register of the citizens. 2. When the slave was led before the praetor and that magistrate laid his wand on his head. 3. When the master by his will gave his slave his freedom. (Encyc. Land.) Wharton. It was, in feudal times, express or implied. Manumission express was done by the lord by the lord entering into an obligation with his villein to pay him money at a certain day, or granting him an annuity, or leasing lands to him by deed for a term of years, or doing any other similar act which would imply that he treated with his villein upon the footing of a freeman. Termes de la Ley.