Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Manceps

n. [Latin "an agent"] 1. Roman law. A purchaser of something at a state auction, asp. a right or advantage, as in the right to farm taxes. 2. Roman law. A state postmaster. "Manceps. One who at a public auction, conducted by a magistrate, through the highest bid obtained the right to collect taxes (a tax farmer) or custom duties, the lease of public land (ager publicus) or other advantages (a monopoly). - In postal organization manceps was a poststation master." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 573 (1953). 3. A person who undertakes to perform a task and gives security for the performance.