manumission sacrorum causa

The freeing of a slave by the master’s solemnly declaring that the slave was to be free while holding a limb of the slave and promising to pay a sum of money if the freedman later departs from the sacra (family rites).

• The master then turned around and released the slave, who became free but was bound to perform the family rites.

— Also termed manumissio sacrorum causa.

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