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emancipatio

emancipatio · f

the releasing of a son

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ēmancĭpātĭo — Lewis & Short

ēmancĭpātĭo (emancup-), ōnis, f.emancipo.—Jurid. t. t.

I In the strict sense of the term, the releasing of a son (by means of a thrice-repeated mancipatio and manumissio) from the patria potestas, so as to render him independent, emancipation (v. emancipo), Gai. Inst. 1, 132; Ulp. Fragm. 10, 1; Just. Inst. 1, 12, § 6; Quint. 11, 1, 65.—

II Transf. in gen.

1 The formal surrender of any thing, the delivery of authority over a thing: fundorum, conveyance, Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 3.—

2 Familiae, a fictitious alienation of property in making a will per aes et libram, Gell. 15, 27, 3.

In the wild

emancipatione Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.4.3
emancipatione Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.12.9
emancipatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.66
emancipationem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.27.3

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