MANCIPIUM

mancipium (man-sip-ee-[schwa]m), n. [Latin “a slave”] Roman law. 1. A slave, esp. by virtue of being captured by an enemy in war. 2. A temporary quasi-servile status, necessarily occurring in an emancipation, and also when a father noxally surrendered a son to answer for a delict. See EMANCIPATION; NOXAL ACTION(1). “But if the patria potestas […]