In jure cessio
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in jure cessio · surrender before a magistrate · Surrender before the magistrate · conveyance by surrender · in iure cessio
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Institutes of Roman Law
Formal alienation performed as a fictitious vindicatio before a magistrate.
Surrender before the magistrate (in jure cessio) is intended to effect a transfer of ownership from person to person:
and Tradition is as unilateral a transaction as Mancipation or Surrender before a magistrate.
in the sphere of alienations Traditio is Formless, while Mancipatio and In jure cessio are Formal.