manumission's Usage Examples:

During the reign of Coloman, moreover, the number of freemen was increased by the frequent manumission of serfs.

And as the legal manumission dissolved a son's previous agnatic relationships, so, too, the person baptized gave up father and mother, 'c.

This extra-legal sort of manumission was incomplete and precarious; even after the lex Junia Norbana (A.

Augustus set himself against the undue multiplication of manumissions, probably considering the rapid succession of new citizens a source of social instability, and recommended a similar policy to his successor.

The military vocation of Rome was now felt to have reached its normal limits; and the emperors, understanding that, in the future, industrial activity must prevail, prepared the abolition of slavery as far as was then possible, by honouring the freedmen, by protecting the slave against his master, and by facilitating manumissions.

manumission club in Ibiza.

3) forbade manumission, except in strictly limited cases, by masters under 20 years of age or of slaves under 30; and the lex Furia Caninia (about A.

The polygonal terrace wall at the back, on being cleared, proves to be covered with inscriptions, most of them concerning the manumission of slaves.

A further appendix consisted of Anecdotes, Letters and Rescripts of the emperor Hadrian; fables of Aesop; extracts from Hyginus; a history of the Trojan War, abridged from the Iliad; and a legal fragment, Hepi iXethEpci €wv (De manumissionibus).

By manumission the Athenian slave became in relation to the state a metic, in relation to his master a client.

But at the same time he devoted his energies to the improvement of the administration of the empire; he reformed the standard of coinage, fixed the price of provisions and other necessaries of daily life, remitted the tax upon inheritances and manumissions, abolished various monopolies, repressed corruption and encouraged trade.

The third manumission thus gave to the son and slave his freedom.

Synonyms:

liberation, freeing, release,

Antonyms:

engage, clasp, enlist, hold,