Remancipate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To return to a previous owner or the one who was previously in charge.
"'Fiducia' is an agreement of trust, whereby the transferee in a mancipatio undertakes to divest himself of the ownership which has been conveyed to him, and more especially — in certain circumstances — to remancipate the thing he has received."
Example
More examples"'Fiducia' is an agreement of trust, whereby the transferee in a mancipatio undertakes to divest himself of the ownership which has been conveyed to him, and more especially — in certain circumstances — to remancipate the thing he has received."
Etymology
From re- + mancipate.
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