mancipatory, a. Roman Law.
(ˈmænsɪpətərɪ)
[f. mancipate v. + -ory.]
Pertaining or involving mancipation.
| 1861 Maine Anc. Law vi. (1876) 212 The Mancipatory Testament by which the universitas juris devolved at once and unimpaired. 1880 Muirhead Gaius iii. §167 Except when he [a slave] expressly stipulates or takes by mancipatory conveyance [etc.]. Ibid. iv. §131 An actio ex empto for mancipatory conveyance to us of lands we have bought. |