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Definition of Manumits
1. manumit [v] - See also: manumit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumits
Literary usage of Manumits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1837)
"Richard Bibb, Jr. of Uy. manumits 15 more slaves for colonization in ... Mrs.
Ann Harris, of Chesterfield county, Va. manumits by will 10 slaves for ..."
2. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"A emancipates B to C, and C manumits B by the vindicta, as in the manumission of
a slave. The effect of this manumission is that B relapses into ..."
3. A History of Roman Law: With a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and by Andrew Stephenson (1912)
"(1) A sells B to C. (2) C manumits B by the process of vindicta, ... B to C.
(4) C manumits B by same process as before and with the same results. ..."
4. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation and Notes by Thomas Collett Sandars, Emperor of the East Justinian (1917)
"A person manumits in fraud of creditors, who is insolvent at the time ...
he manumits, or becomes so by the manumission itself. ..."
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