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Quis Erus Est?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2009
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1 Gaius, Inst. i. 119. The words cited above are the complete formula as used in a uindicatio where it is a question of simply asserting one's mancipium or right of ownership; when ownership is being transferred with money, the mancipator, holding a bronze balance, strikes it with a bronze coin (a symbolic price), pronouncing the formula and adding isque mihi emptus esto hoc aere aeneaque libra.