Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Mancipatio
n. [Latin] See MANCIPATION.
Mancipation
[fr. Latin mancipatio "handgrasp"] 1. Roman law. A legal formality for acquiring property by either an actual or a simulated purchase. ( The formality consisted in laying hold of a thing and asserting title to it before five witnesses, followed by weighing the real or pretended purchase money on scales. This form of sale was abolished by Justinian. "Mancipatio is the solemn sale per aes et libram. In the presence of five witnesses (cives Romani puberes) a skilled weighmaster (libripens) weighs out to the vendor a certain amount of uncoined copper (aes, raudus, raudusculum) which is the purchase-money, and the purchaser, with solemn words, takes possession with his hand - hence the description of the act as
emancipation proclamation
An executive proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all persons held in slavery in certain designated states and districts were freed.
emancipation.
1. The act by which one who was under another's power and control is freed. 2. A surrender and renunciation of the correlative rights and duties concerning the care, custody, and earnings of a child; the act by which a parent (historically a father) frees a child and gives the child the right to his or her own earnings. 0 This act also frees the parent from all legal obligations of support. Emancipation may take place by agreement between the parent and child, by operation of law (as when the parent abandons or fails to support the child), or when the child gets legally married. A "partial emancipation" frees a child for only a part of the period of minority, or from only a part of the parent's rights, or for only some purposes. 3. Roman law. The enfranchisement of a son by his father, accomplished through the formality of an imaginary sale. ( Justinian substituted the simpler proceeding of a manumission before a magistrate. Cf. MANCIPATION.
praemium emancipationis
n. [Latin "reward for emancipation"] Roman law. A compensation allowed by Constantine to a father on the emancipation of his child, consisting of onethird of the property that came to the child from his mother's side. ( Justinian replaced this with the usufruct of half the child's separate property.