manumission|manumissions in English

noun

['mænjə'mɪʃn /-jʊ'm]

act of freeing a slave from bondage, act of emancipating

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1. Manumission, or affranchisement, is the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves.

2. Pierre, Martinique in 1705, an enslaved woman, Babet Binture, sued for her freedom, claiming that she was free from birth. Binture lost her first trial before the Superior Council of Martinique, but she was later given hope of manumission when her

3. The text deals with the competencies of duumviri, aediles and quaestores, regulates the decurional order, manumission and the appointment of guardians, the relations between patronus and cliens, the acquisition of Roman civil rights by magistrates and public affairs, including the funding of cults, priesthoods, rituals, calendar and games, which were considered a religious matter.