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Definition of Manumitter
1. Noun. Someone who frees others from bondage. "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator"
Definition of Manumitter
1. Noun. An emancipator from slavery, someone who manumits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manumitter
Literary usage of Manumitter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"But the goods of Latins belong to the successors in the same shares in which they
would belong to the manumitter in person. (G. 3,6i.) (5. ..."
2. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor, Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1875)
"Again, in the succession of a freedman who had the full franchise, the children
of the manumitter are not barred by any form of disinheritance ; whereas, ..."
3. Gaii Institutionum Iuris Civilis Commentarii Quattuor: Or, Elements of Roman by Gaius, Edward Poste (1884)
"Again, in the succession of a freedman who had the full franchise, the children
of the manumitter are not barred by any form of disinheritance ; whereas, ..."
4. Outline of Roman History from Romulus to Justinian (including Translations by David Nasmith, Gaius (1890)
"and Largus (AD 41), the senate decreed that the property of Latins should devolve
in the first instance on the manumitter, and, failing him, on such of his ..."
5. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri quattuor by John Baron Moyle (1883)
"Its effect was to prefer to the extraneous manumitter the ten persons specified
above; ... has in all cases made the parent implicitly the manumitter, ..."
6. Gai Institvtiones: Or, Institutes of Roman Law by Gaius, Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1904)
"There is an adequate motive of manumission if, for instance, a natural child or
natural brother or sister or foster child of the manumitter's, or a teacher ..."
7. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"Further the manumitter must have more slaves than the one manumitted. Other lawful
causes are that the manumitter has been appointed heir on condition of ..."
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