Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman law, the power over a freeman acquired by mancipation, that is, exercise of the paternal power to sell a son. The son then came into a condition similar to that of a slave, but to the purchaser alone. The transaction could be only among Roman citizens.
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Examples
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In these cases possession had the characters of absolute proprietorship, called mancipium, jus Quiritium.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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Olim vile mancipium, nunc in omni aestimatione, nunc ars haberi caepta, &c.
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Consol. ad Pammachium mundi Philosophus, gloriae animal, et popularis aurae et rumorum venale mancipium.
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If the mancipium died a natural death under the creditor's hand, the creditor was scot free.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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If the mancipium died a natural death while in the creditor's possession no claim could lie against the latter; but if he was the cause of death by cruelty, he had to give son for son, or pay for a slave.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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[114] Extraneum ab omni benedictione Dei, Satanae mancipium, sub peccati jugo captivum, horribili denique exitio destinatum et jam implicitum.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics
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The creditor could only hold a wife or child three years as mancipium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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A curious extension of the _talio_ is the death of creditor's son for his father's having caused the death of debtor's son as mancipium; of builder's son for his father's causing the death of house-owner's son by building the house badly; the death of a man's daughter because her father caused the death of another man's daughter.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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The man was responsible for debts contracted by his wife, even before her marriage, as well as for his own; but he could use her as a mancipium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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The debtor being seized for debt could nominate as mancipium or hostage to work off the debt, his wife, a child, or slave.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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