mancipatio

Ulpian and Paul.] 105 The trina mancipatio is most clearly defined by Ulpian, (Fragment.x. p. 591, 592, edit.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

I have with reluctance adopted _libra ... et aere magis_, taking it in the sense _magis quam libra et aere_ ( 'I am yours even more than I would be if I had been acquired through _mancipatio_').

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= After addressing Pompeius directly (_testere licet_), Ovid addresses those witnessing the _mancipatio_.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Both conveyance (_mancipatio_) and surrender in court (_in iure cessio_) are confirmed.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

[54] At a sale (_mancipium_ or _mancipatio_) the buyer in the presence of five adult citizens had his money weighed by another adult citizen who held scales for this purpose.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

Heinsius '_tuum ... tuum_ is grammatical enough, but (as Professor R.J. Tarrant points out to me) makes Ovid say that he is Pompeius' literally through _mancipatio_.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Mancipium or mancipatio, which was nothing but the solemn delivering over of the thing in the presence of a determinate number of witnesses and a public officer; it was from this probably that proprietorship was named, 2.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Mancipium or mancipatio, which was nothing but the solemn delivering over of the thing in the presence of a determinate number of witnesses and a public officer; it was from this probably that proprietorship was named,

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

In all this there is much to remind us of the Roman _mancipatio_, a method of sale which demanded the presence of five witnesses, and in which the buyer took possession of his new purchase by holding in his hand a bronze ingot and repeating the formula: "This man [i.e., a slave]

The Customs of Old England

Such was the decision of Ulpian and Paul.] [Footnote 105: The trina mancipatio is most clearly defined by Ulpian,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765