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mancipation|mænsɪˈpeɪʃən|
[ad. L. mancipātiōn-em, n. of action f. mancipāre to mancipate.]
1. The ceremonial process by which certain kinds of property (designated as res mancipi) were transferred (see quot. 1880).
1656Blount Glossogr., Mancipation, a manner of selling before witnesses with sundry ceremonies, &c. 1774S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Civ. Law 24 By the old Roman laws Alienation of things Corporeal was of two kinds. 1. Mancipation. 2. Tradition. The former related to such things as were called Res Mancipi. 1849Colquhoun Rom. Civ. Law §558 I. 474 The emption on the part of the husband was done in the same form as the usual quiritian mancipations. 1880Muirhead Ulpian xix. §3 Mancipation is a mode of alienation peculiar to res mancipi, and is performed by recital of certain words of style, in presence of a balance-holder and five witnesses.
2. gen. The action of enslaving; the state of being enslaved.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades iii. vii. 395/1 If..any bondman were desirous to staye..his voluntarie bondage should be confirmed by the ceremonie of Mancipation. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 169 The consecration and mancipation of him to the holy Ministery. 1643Plain English 9 The mancipation of themselves to the promiscuous service of the Queen. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. viii. 68 They who fall away..into a contradictory state of sinne and mancipation. 1663Waterhouse Comm. Fortescue 187 They [the Romans]..prevailed against all mankinde to their Mancipation under them.
¶3. (See quot.)
1623Cockeram, Mancipation, a taming. |