Emancipation
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Institutes of Roman Law
The formal process, originally via mancipation, by which a child is released from paternal power.
Emancipation also liberates children from the power of the parent, a son being liberated by three mancipations, other issue, male or female, by a single mancipation;
In the case of other issue, male or female, a single mancipation suffices, with or without remancipation to the natural father.
In English law children are enfranchised, and the limited power of the father over their person and property is terminated by two events which did not operate emancipation in Roman law, marriage and arrival at years of discretion, that is, attainment of majority by the completion of twenty-one years of age.
Ancient Law
The Roman legal act freeing a child from paternal power, which paradoxically stripped that child of inheritance rights.
The empire of the father had indeed received one of the earliest blows directed at it through the recognition of Emancipation as a legitimate usage, but the law, still considering the Patria Potestas to be the root of family connection, persevered in looking on the emancipated children as strangers to the rights of Kinship and aliens from the blood.