Coemptio
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coemptio · coemption · Coemption · coemptione · hand by coemption · manus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The fictitious sale placing a woman in manus of her husband or another, treated like adoption for succession purposes.
Conversely, the debts of the person who gives himself in adoption or of the woman who becomes subjected to hand (manus), do not pass to the fictitious purchaser (coemptionator) or adoptive father, unless they are hereditary debts, for in this case as the adoptive father or coemptionator are heredes instead of the persons made subject to them, they become directly liable, while the person adopted a …
When a paterfamilias gives himself in adoption, or a woman subjects herself to hand, all their property, incorporeal and corporeal, and all debts due to them, are acquired by the adoptive father and the fictitious purchaser, excepting such rights as are extinguished by loss of status — usufruct, for instance, bounden services of freedmen secured by oath, and claims in respect of which there has be …
Coemptio is not noticed by Justinian, as the in manum conventio of the wife was obsolete long before his time.