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|lshtext=<b>mancĭpātĭo</b>: (mancŭp-), ōnis, f. [[mancipo]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[making]] [[over]], [[delivery]], [[transfer]] of a [[thing]] to [[another]]; one of the modes of acquiring [[possession]] by the Roman [[civil]] [[law]]; [[hence]], also, for [[purchase]]: qui mancipio accipit, apprehendere id ipsum, [[quod]] ei mancipio datur, [[necesse]] [[sit]]: [[unde]] [[etiam]] [[mancipatio]] dicitur, [[quia]] manu res capitur, Gai. Inst. 1, 121 (v. the [[passage]] in [[full]] under [[mancipium]]): mancupationem tabulis probare, the [[purchase]], Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 117.
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