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Mancipatio. Every father, in the Roman law, had such an authority over his son, that before the son could be released from his subjection and made free he must be twice sold and bought, his natural father being in the first instance the vendor. The vendee was called pater fiduciarius. After this fictitious bargain, the pater fiduciarius sold him again to his natural father, who could then, but not till then, manumit or make him free. The imaginary sale was called mancipatio; and the act of giving him liberty, or setting him free, was called emancipatio.Also selling or alienating of certain lands by the balance or money paid by weight, and in the presence of five witnesses. This mode of alienation took place only among Roman citizens, and that only in respect to certain estates situated in Italy, which were called mancipia, Encyc. Londin. Abolished by Justinian, when he obliterated the distinction between things mancipi and things nec mancipi. See Sand. Just.; Maine's Ancient Law....
Mercable
Mercable [fr. mercor, Lat.], to be sold or bought....
Plagiarius
Plagiarius, one who knowingly kept in irons, or confined, sold, gave, or bought a citizen (whether freeborn or a freedman), or the slave of another; the offence being called plagium, Civ. Law....
Badger
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food a hawker a huckster formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another...
Anchor
Anchor. The (English) Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), consolidating, with small amendments, three Acts of 1864, 1871 and 1874, provides that unproved anchors are not to be sold or bought for a British ship, and regulates the made of testing by testing establishments licensed by the Board of Trade. See also (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 290, 538-40. As to recovering the value of an anchor which has been slipped to avoid a collision, see The Port Victoria, 1902, P. 25....
Advow, or Avow, or Avouch
Advow, or Avow, or Avouch [under the feudal system, when the right of a tenant was impugned, he had to call upon his lord to come forward and defend his right. This, in the Latin of the time, was called advocare, Fr. voucher a garantie, to vouch or call to warrant. As the calling the lord of the fee to defend the right of the tenant involved the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the equivalent, Fr. avouer, to avow, came to signify the admission by a tenant of a certain person as feudal superior. Finally, with some grammatical confusion, the words advocare, and avow or avouch, came to be used in the sense of performing the part of the vouchee, or person called on to defend the right impugned. Wedgw.], to justify or maintain an act, e.g., one distrains for rent, and he that is distrained brings an action of replevin; if the distrainer in his defence justify or maintain his act, he is said to advow or...
marketable
marketable 1 : fit to be offered for sale : being such as may be justly or lawfully sold or bought [ goods] 2 : wanted by buyers [ securities] mar·ket·abil·i·ty [mÄ r-kə-tə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
Regent diamond
A famous diamond of fine quality which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France It is so called from the Duke of Orleans Regent of France to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras whence also called the Pitt diamond who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701...
Lastage or lestage
Lastage or lestage [fr. lastagium, Lat.], a custom exacted in some fairs and markets to carry things bought whither one will. But it is more accurately taken for the ballast or lading of a ship. Also, custom paid for wares sold by the last, as herrings, pitch, etc., Jac. Law Dict....
Manceps
Manceps [Lat.], a farmer of the public revenues; one who sold an estate with a promise of keeping the purchaser harmless; one who bought an estate by outcry; one who undertook a piece of work and gave security for the performance....
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