Res Mancipi
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Res Censui Censendo · Things which require a Mancipation · Things which required a Mancipation · mancipable things · res mancipi
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Institutes of Roman Law
Categories of property assessed at the Census (Res Censui Censendo) requiring specific forms of transfer, the holding and disposal of which was eventually recognized for Plebeians.
that is, those kinds of property which were assessed at the Census (Res Censui Censendo) and which, as being liable to such assessment, required peculiar methods of transfer as evidence of ownership.
for it is clear that these are mancipable objects, although belonging to the class of incorporeal things.
Mancipable things, on the contrary, are such as are conveyed by mancipation, whence their name;
Ancient Law
The favored, ceremonially-transferred class of Roman property including land, slaves, and beasts of burden.
In this way, the Roman Prætor gave an immediate right of property to the person who had acquired a Res Mancipi by mere delivery, without waiting for the ripening of Usucapion.
Thus, the Res Mancipi of Roman Law included not only land but slaves, horses, and oxen.
but it was not probably till much later that they received the distinctive appellation of Res Mancipi, “Things which require a Mancipation.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman legal category of highly formal property including land, slaves, and oxen.
The primitive Roman law placed them in the highest class, and joined them with land and slaves as items of the Res Mancipi.