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Mawncipium

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A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Roman law. Tha momentary condition in which a /i/ius, ete., might be when in course of emancipation from the poiestas, and before that emancipation was absolutely complete. The condition was not like the dominica potestas over slaves, but slaves are frequently called “mancipia” in the non-legal Koman authors. Grown.