单词 | coemption |
释义 | coemptionn. 1. The buying up of the whole supply of any commodity in the market.The first quotation appears to show that Chaucer understood Boethius's coemptio as meaning ‘joint purchase’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > joint purchase coemptionc1374 society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > buying up goods for resale or monopoly regrateryc1400 regratinga1450 engrossing?1542 forestalling1548 engrossment1598 coemption1625 abbrochment1670 forestalment1861 switch dealing1957 switch deal1973 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. iv. 15 Coempcioun þat is to seyn comune achat or bying to-gidere þat were establissed vpon people by swiche a manere imposicioun as who so bouȝte a busshel corn he moste ȝeue þe Kyng þe fifte part. Textus. Whan it was in þe soure hungry tyme þere was establissed or cried greuous and inplitable coempcioun þat..schulde..endamagen al þe prouince of compaigne. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 210 Monopolies, and Coemption of Wares for Resale, where they are not restrained, are great Meanes to enrich. 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. i. 18 The whole Province of Campania had like to have been ruin'd by an Imposition upon the People, which pass'd under the Name of a Coemption. 2. Roman Law. A form of civil marriage consisting in a mutual fictitious sale of the two parties. The same form of fictitious sale was also employed by women in certain ‘fiduciary’ transactions. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > other types of wedding confarreation1598 farreation1656 coemption1676 Scotch marriage1762 foot washing1780 civil union1837 white wedding1840 hand-fastening1899 Anand Karaj1938 destination wedding1990 society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > fact of being sold > form of fictitious sale coemption1880 1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 551 Coemption, the man asking the woman if she would be willing to be the mother of the Family, and she answering she is willing; and the Woman asking the Man..and he answering he is willing. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 226/2. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law v. 154 The higher form of civil marriage, which was called Coemption. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 43 Fiduciary coemption was also had recourse to of old to enable a woman to make a will. Derivatives coemptional adj. [Latin coemptiōnālis] relating to coemption. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Coemptional, which is often in buying, or a buying together. coemptioˈnator n. [Latin] one who enters into a coemption. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > bride or bridegroom > one marrying by coemption coemptionator1875 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. Comm. 107 Bondage was the result of mancipation by a parent or coemptionator. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 44 She..stands to her coemptionator in the position of a daughter who is married to him. coˈemptive adj. of the nature of coemption. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [adjective] > types of wedding civila1602 runaway1720 coemptive1875 confarreate1880 farreate1880 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. § 123 If it is asked in what respect coemptive conveyance differs from mancipation, the answer is this, that coemption does not reduce to a servile condition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.c1374 |
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