res mancipi and res nec mancipi
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res mancipi · res nec mancipi · Res Mancipi · Res nec Mancipi · mancipi res
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Roman legal categories distinguishing inalienable capital-stock property from freely exchangeable goods, paralleled in Slavonian house-community custom.
and though we only know the Roman res mancipi as alienable under certain circumstances, the very complexity of the formalities required for alienation furnishes a hint that they once constituted the inalienable capital stock of the ancient Latin cultivating communities.
Among these distinctions, there is that which the ancient Roman lawyers drew between Res Mancipi and Res nec Mancipi—that is, between Things which required and Things which did not require for their transfer the conveyance of Mancipation;
We know, nevertheless, that the whole course of Roman legal modification from the Twelve Tables to the reforms of Justinian had to be gone through before this seemingly obvious distinction formally superseded the old historical distinction between Res Mancipi and Res nec Mancipi, the first including Land, Slaves, Horses, and Oxen, and the second everything else;
Institutes of Roman Law
The fundamental Roman law division of things requiring formal conveyance (mancipi) from those transferable by simple delivery (nec mancipi)
— aut mancipi sunt aut nec mancipi.
Item stipendiaria praedia et tributaria nec mancipi | sunt.
Magna autem differentia est inter mancipi res et nec mancipi.