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mancipatio

mancipatio · f

a making over, delivery, transfer

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

mancĭpātĭo — Lewis & Short

mancĭpātĭo (mancŭp-), ōnis, f.mancipo,

I a making over, delivery, transfer of a thing to another; one of the modes of acquiring possession by the Roman civil law; hence, also, for purchase: qui mancipio accipit, apprehendere id ipsum, quod ei mancipio datur, necesse sit: unde etiam mancipatio dicitur, quia manu res capitur, Gai. Inst. 1, 121 (v. the passage in full under mancipium): mancupationem tabulis probare, the purchase, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 117.

In the wild

mancipatione Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.19.3

Where it came from

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